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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
Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
— Robert McChesney
The mind finds security and strength in religious and political patterns, and this is what gives stamina to the organizations.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.
— Walter Mosley
Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people ... And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
— Abraham Polonsky
A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.
— Colin Quinn
A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
— P. Chidambaram
It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.
— George W. Bush
what fuels human unhappiness in both the personal and political realm can be boiled down to these three key emotions - anxiety, fear, and shame.
— Harriet Lerner
There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.
— Rosemary Mahoney
I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.
— Alex Chiu
Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence - call it what you will - is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.
— Matthew Flinders
It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat.
— Pauline Quirke
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
— Howard Nemerov
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
— Abba Eban
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
— Angela Y. Davis
Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.
— Pete Hamill
What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.
— Criss Jami
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
— A.J.P. Taylor
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
— Newt Gingrich
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.
— John Podhoretz
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
— Hannah Arendt
What America needs is a political revolution.
— Walker Evans
You'd be surprised what I can do with a butter knife.
— S.L. Wallace
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.
— Clint Eastwood
We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.
— Dalia Grybauskaite
I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.
— Nikki Haley
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
— Edgar Quinet
It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
— Valentina Tereshkova
What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
— Zephyr Teachout
Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.
— Sasa Stanisic
Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.
— Harry Browne
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
— Abraham Lincoln
What would a respectful political cartoon look like?
— Salman Rushdie
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
— Tony Benn
The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.
— Subhas Chandra Bose
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
— Chris Patten
This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.
— George W. Bush
I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
— Dave Matthews
Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.
— Russell Brand
A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.
— Robert D. Hare
Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.
— Conor Oberst
It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
— Patricia McBride
I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.
— Stephen Stills
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
— Thomas Paine
What's a political?"
"Like a spy, but on your own side," said Maladict — Terry Pratchett
"Like a spy, but on your own side," said Maladict — Terry Pratchett
The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.
— George W. Bush
Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'
— Tom Brokaw
I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.
— Robert Redford
I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?
— Dylan Moran
[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.
— Neil Kinnock
Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite
— Iain Banks
Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
— Tony Abbott
I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.
— John Keegan
I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.
— Mike McGavick
Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
— T. S. Eliot
If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
— Susan B. Anthony
Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
— Jeb Bush
We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.
— Moshe Sharett
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
— Molly Ivins
We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.
— Dennis Prager