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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin? — Frederick Douglass

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. — Paul Ryan

The Republicans think they have a corner on morality ... — Marya Mannes

Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it. — P. J. O'Rourke

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent. — Gus Franklin Mutscher

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society. — Betty Friedan

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine. — Caleb Cushing

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else. — M.I.A.

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

When you come to a new country with so little, all you have is your character. — Zack Love

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious. — John Scott, 1st Earl Of Eldon

I started my political career facing lynch mobs. — Bob Filner

The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds. — Nana Awere Damoah

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all. — George W. Bush

Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti. — David Weinberger

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion. — Napoleon Hill

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time. — Toni Morrison

I'm not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I'm a pastor. — Rick Warren

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness. — Clint Eastwood

I can see November from my house. — Sarah Palin

The personal is political. When — Gloria Steinem

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese. — Alex Chiu

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived. — Petronius

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates. — Claire McCaskill

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents. — Glenn Reynolds

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. — Thom Mayne

I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated. — Kevin Smith

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century. — Sebastian Arcelus

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing ... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart. — Jeb Bush

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. — Kenneth Koch

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race. — Frank Field

[V]alue your dreams but ... be wary of them also, ... look for integrity in unusual places. — Azar Nafisi

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued. — Aesop

It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that. — Elena Kagan

Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to ... A form of political illiteracy. — Bill Kraus

Actors with political views are a dime a dozen. — Tom Hanks

Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual — Adolf Hitler

The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work. — Tony Kushner

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle.

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action. — Adolf Hitler

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities. — Andrew Sullivan

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you. — Alexander Cockburn

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built. — Larry Niven

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles. — Marco Rubio

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them. — Charley Reese

And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness? — Edward Bellamy

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing. — Caitlin Moran

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents. — Aldous Huxley

I'm very much engaged in the political battles, but I'm doing it as a supporter of Republicans out of conservatism rather than an active candidate. — Mitt Romney

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext. — William Hurrell Mallock

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it. — George Washington

Bernie Saunders is like a fly buzzing around a bowl of rotten fruit. Long hail this fly! — Marge Simon

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it. — Bianca Jagger

Not every smile is genuine some are just the bared fangs of wolves about to eat you - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable. — Tom Coburn

Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction. — Steven Pressfield

My relationship with Barack Obama isn't based on my political philosophy or his. — Tom Coburn

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored. — H.L. Mencken

In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites. — Jean Francois Revel

You have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking. — Rick Perry

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else. — Michael Pollan

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections. — Dick Morris

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole. — Chuck Schumer

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history. — Robert Dallek

Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views. — Khem Veasna

The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class. — Robert Waterman McChesney

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics. — Jane Campion

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game. — Rob Bishop

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim. — Rick Mercer

Let us never yield to those who believe political power flows from the barrel of a gun, to — Marcus Sakey

The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood. — Chanakya

Political correctness is a war on noticing. — Steve Sailer

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time. — Carly Fiorina

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office. — John Kenneth Galbraith

After you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again — Herbert H. Lehman

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy

Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty. — Neal Boortz

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation. — Paul Harvey

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense — Morton Blackwell

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again. — Wavy Gravy

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society. — David Blunkett

It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term. — George W. Bush

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me. — Tony Goldwyn

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda. — Leonard Mlodinow

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101. — Charles B. Rangel

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear. — T. Rafael Cimino

What would a respectful political cartoon look like? — Salman Rushdie

There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young. — Eddie Whitlock

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department. — Nancy Reagan

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom. — Vishal Mangalwadi

The Hippocratic Oath says do no harm. It's the Hypocritical Oath that says do no harm to one's political future. — Mark McKinnon

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country. — James Monroe