Politics Quotes (4933 Quotes)

Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.

Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.

We have been very successful with this project because we have been apolitical. Both governments seem to understand this program is to help children in this case, they happen to be Cuban children. Our objective is to not take political sides.

The best time to make these breakthroughs is when the political leaders are engaged. If it gets turned back to the bureaucracies, we'll never have an agreement.

One cannot pay a political price for peace. If we were to do so, terrorism would have won.

I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

Since 9-11, Bush's consistent political advantage has been the public's confidence in him to handle the terrorist threat. The Iraq war has weakened Bush's edge, and now the Dubai ports misstep may destroy it. This has become a troubled and tone-deaf Presidency.

Hip hop is inherently political, the language is political. It uses language as a weapon -- not a weapon to violate or not a weapon to offend, but a weapon that pushes the envelope that provokes people, makes people think.

Yesterday, it was Augie's day and we didn't want to intrude upon his day with politics. We have to move on and keep his spirit alive by helping to protect his buddies who are still out there.

If New Orleans politicians can't talk about recovery and progress, then how can they expect Washington or the rest of the nation to care This is about bringing all of Louisiana's leaders together to look at the progress that's been made since the last legislative session and to continue forward.

We were always involved, ... Rich was active in the ward organization, the 11th ward organization, which was the base of my dad's politics. There were actual people who went door to door on election time. Rich would be one of them.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

The rapid advancement of the Baltic nations of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, also former Soviet republics, has been something of a miracle, ... political culture.

We hope (Rounds) recognizes this for what it is a political tool and not about the health and safety of the women of South Dakota.

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

on-off engagement with the IICD is no less discouraging than the UUP's onoff commitment to the political institutions.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

On taboos we did once publish a piece by the right-wing US social theorist Charles Murray. But I think he's a legitimate figure. We are still, broadly speaking, on the liberal side of politics.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

We were heartened by statements that came out today by the Sunni clerics and politicians.

What is it that Andres Manuel sees in Juarez He sees a political leader with a task that is almost impossible.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

I try to mix it up. Who wants to see a comic who just goes on with one subject, such as politics, for an hour I go in a number of different directions. When I perform, there is no subject that is taboo.

Throughout Carter's career, he's paid a lot of political price for this approach. I can't imagine he's very popular in south Georgia this morning. What's unusual is he seems more concerned about the south Connecticut economy than the south Georgia economy.

As angry and pissed off as we were in 1994 about politics, I think it's worse today. This House of Representatives' Republican majority is in jeopardy.

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

The fact that you, as secretary general of a political party, made remarks contrary to the fact in a forum such as a news conference can mislead the public and is very regrettable. I strongly protest and demand that (you) retract the remark and apologize.

And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

If (Lockyer) went out there and declared (Shelley's) innocence and refused to interview him, then Lockyer has a lot of explaining to do about a bungled investigation of a corrupt politician.

If anybody honestly and truly believes that because some corporation throws a member a party that the member is in their pocket, they go to the Oliver Stone school of politics.

The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay, ... The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

I'm not a politician. I have an opinion, and I like to help the good guys out if I can without overstepping my bounds.

It's only February, and they have made clear they intend to run the dirtiest campaign in modern presidential politics,

With Hurricane Katrina, the war that we've been engaged in and all the politics that are happening, maybe America actually is starting to go, 'We need something more', ... I really hope so.

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

However, the head of a lab-watchdog group doubts the board's influence. There's no major (Department of Energy) decisions that don't have a political component, ... It's money and power rather than the technological reality that dominate the weapons programs.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Health-care decisions should be made by individuals and doctors, not politicians.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

You can't have peace if people are able to murder a man and get away with it just because it upsets the political apple cart to stand up to them.

Today we have to fight the political walls and divisions that separate us. We must communicate across all political, religious and racial barriers.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.