All Quotes

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
‐‐ Leonard Peltier

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

A political revolution must proceed simultaneously with the nationalist revolution. When we overthrow the Manchu regime, we will achieve not only a nationalist revolution against the Manchus but also a political revolution against monarchy. They are not to be carried out at two different times.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
‐‐ Francis Parker Yockey

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
‐‐ Texas Guinan

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
‐‐ Oscar Levant

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
‐‐ David Lloyd George

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
‐‐ E. E. Cummings

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
‐‐ John Webster

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
‐‐ Hubert H. Humphrey

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
‐‐ Lady Bird Johnson

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
‐‐ Dean Koontz

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
‐‐ James Freeman Clarke

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
‐‐ Max Lerner

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.
‐‐ Andrew Denton

A pomegranate is filled with rubies when you open it up. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend - but not for me. I love rubies; they're great over necks, you know.
‐‐ Lynda Resnick

A pompadour is actually pretty easy for me; it takes me about five minutes.
‐‐ Andra Day

A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
‐‐ Joan Didion

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.
‐‐ Trent Lott

A poor logo doesn't mean a business will fail, and a good logo doesn't mean it will succeed - it just helps. Ultimately a good logo is something that people recognize instantly and relate to.
‐‐ Matt Mickiewicz

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
‐‐ Ali ibn Abi Talib

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
‐‐ Georges Bernanos

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.
‐‐ David D. Burns

A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.
‐‐ Kyle Dunnigan

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.
‐‐ Hooman Majd

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
‐‐ James Madison

A popular intifada is most beneficial for the Palestinians.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.
‐‐ Bruce Braley

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.
‐‐ Roy H. Williams

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
‐‐ John Singer Sargent

A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.
‐‐ Daniela Ruah

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
‐‐ David Bailey

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
‐‐ Joan Lunden

A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
‐‐ Kay Redfield Jamison

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
‐‐ Arne Duncan

A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.
‐‐ Ralph Merkle

A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
‐‐ Katha Pollitt

A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahead, the forecasts of the two series will form a constant ratio, as is expected by some asymptotic economic theory.
‐‐ Clive Granger

A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.
‐‐ Eden Robinson