Politics Quotes (4933 Quotes)


    That's just a real-life condition I have to deal with. It has nothing to do with me doing the movie. I cannot dilute or intensify the movie because of the political environment. I cannot wait until the world is perfect to make my movie. If I don't do it, somebody else will -- and I will be very jealous. So I didn't really give it too much thought.

    I came here a year ago with a belief that we could change this country, with the belief that the politics of what was possible, the politics of hope, could overcome the politics of cynicism. The people of Iowa tonight confirmed that they believe in a positive, uplifting vision to change America.



    Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.



    I declare I will never return to it. I have no intention of doing so and nobody should even dream about it. I will root this gang out of Indian politics. I will ideologically expose them. They will shiver in their legs. They are foreign elements, but I will not make any personal attacks.




    I hope that this milestone marks the point when the American people realize the U.S. military is not going to stop the violence in Iraq, and they instead start demanding a political solution to this problem.



    The visit proceeds against a difficult information background in Russian-U. S. relations. Due to that fact, we are ready for an open and honest dialogue with representatives of the administration, the American Political Science Association and Congress, in order to explain our approaches to current international issues, as well as various aspects of the development of the political situation in Russia.



    I will guarantee that there will be crisis in the Bush presidency, ... There always are in every president's administration, and when those crises come up, the people that stand with him are not going to be the people telling him to go to the middle or to satisfy the liberals or satisfy the Democrats. It's going be the conservative base that elected him.

    If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.


    Is he a leading citizen Yes, he is. Does he have a lot of friends because of that Yes, he does. (But) I'm not aware that he's become a great force in politics.





    Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.


    At a time when many were turning on and tuning out, Sen. McCarthy inspired an entire generation of young Americans in the '60s, including myself, to get involved in the political process and make a difference.


    We know Congress is not eager to do this but it's something that has to be done. I have no doubt that congressional Democrats are going to look for some political gain in this, but they are not going to find any magic bullet.


    The ban on new U.S. investment in Burma is the latest in a series of sanctions the United States has imposed in response to the utter lack of political freedom in that country, ... and because its government has failed to cooperate in the war against drugs.


    I see an opportunity that we must not miss. I wouldn't have been able to forgive myself if I hadn't, because of political party considerations or inconvenience, lent a hand to the move ... Sharon is leading.




    Despite the protests of politicians and some business people that we were nowhere near recession, obviously we're very close. I think the bank will ease, and the market will undoubtedly move to price it in earlier.

    Politics is a rough trade and I can take it with the best of them. I have demonstrated I am capable of taking the worst of blows, even when they are almost so ludicrous as to be bizarre, but I do draw the line at families. I always have. I try to keep my family out of my politics as much as possible.

    Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.


    I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

    We are only going to commit ground troops if there is a commitment to a political process. Nobody is going to commit ground troops in the context of a continuing war and a crumbling cease-fire,

    We seem to have economic amnesia. Decisions about what sort of technologies to invest in, what fuels to produce and in what quantity are best made by consumers and business, and not by politicians.

    Israelis have decided that 9,000 people cannot set the political agenda, ... They cannot have thousands of soldiers jeopardizing their (own) lives in order to protect them.

    Bush understood that his legacy might be that North Korea became a significant nuclear weapons state on his watch, ... realized this was a national security and a political problem.


    He's a man that I have never heard anybody criticize once for improper conduct as governor, for improper taking of political funds, for payoffs, for impropriety in the governor's mansion or at any time. And that is a big state. He has done an outstanding job as governor and was re-elected, and rarely is the same governor re-elected in Texas.

    It's looking more and more that she's able to deal with these kind of threats so over time the market will realize that and see the political risk is less and less. All this can lead to a stronger currency.

    We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.




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