Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Alterman

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Bernie Sanders

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

Steven Rattner

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

Eve Ensler

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

William J. Clinton

I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

William Hague

Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Jose Padilha

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

Kevin Spacey

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

Henry Rollins

What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

Orson Welles

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.

Mike Pence

Donald Trump's not a polished politician like Hillary Clinton.

Mo Ibrahim

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.