All Quotes

Political courage requires clarity.
‐‐ Joe Klein

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
‐‐ Bernard Kerik

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.
‐‐ Carole Bouquet

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
‐‐ Ann Coulter

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

Political development should start at the grassroots.
‐‐ Abdullah II of Jordan

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.
‐‐ Mark Udall

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.
‐‐ Asif Ali Zardari

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Political elections are not life and death.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown

Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
‐‐ John W. Gardner

Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'
‐‐ John Podhoretz

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
‐‐ Mikhail Bakunin

Political grandstanding might make for great soundbites for the evening news, but it will do nothing to help the people that go to work every day knowing that they're one health emergency away from bankruptcy. It will do nothing to help the hospitals struggling to keep their doors open under the crushing cost of uncompensated care.
‐‐ Steve Bullock

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

Political institutions are fair game in political debates in a democracy. Nothing is more fair game, in fact, than political matters of public concern.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact that campaigns and politicians regularly exploit.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
‐‐ George Orwell

Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.
‐‐ Scott Walker

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
‐‐ Mikhail Gorbachev

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps moving.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

Political movements always belong to the young.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games.
‐‐ Eduardo Paes

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.
‐‐ Phil Klay

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
‐‐ Michel De Certeau

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.
‐‐ John Sununu

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
‐‐ Tony Abbott

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.
‐‐ Marta Andreasen

Political parties need to look at the different kinds of support that people may need, suited to their way of life, and provide cost-effective solutions.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
‐‐ Bruce Sterling

Political people give speeches and espouse positions declaring that America is the best and strongest nation in the world.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
‐‐ Mao Zedong

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
‐‐ Dick Gregory

Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question.
‐‐ Tariq Ali

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.
‐‐ Daniel Hannan

Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan

Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.
‐‐ Jean-Marie Le Pen

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
‐‐ Tom Lehrer

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
‐‐ Tom Lehrer