Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rush Limbaugh

Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional political playbook in destroying and attacking a political opponent is not gonna work on Trump, because Trump's connection with his supporters or his audience is far deeper and far greater than most voters' connection with a candidate that's very popular. Reagan had the connection.

Rush Limbaugh

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

Rush Limbaugh

Democrats are unified under the premise of total political annihilation.

Rush Limbaugh

The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.

Rush Limbaugh

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

Thomas Malthus

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

Thomas Merton

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Thomas Merton

By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.

Thomas Carlyle

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Thomas Carlyle

persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy

Tony Judt

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Tony Judt

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

Tony Kushner

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

Tommy Lee Jones

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

Romano Prodi

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

Ron Paul

Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.

Sam Rayburn

I like power and I like to use it.

Susan Estrich

The personal is political, but only to a point.

Stockwell Day

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

Steve Earle

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

Sri Aurobindo

Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.

Tim Pawlenty

You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we choose the wrong Republican.

Tim Allen

I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain.

Steven Soderbergh

Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.

Raymond Aron

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

Tom Hayden

We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

Tom Hanks

The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day.

Tom Coburn

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

Tom Coburn

We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

Tom Coburn

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

Tim Dorsey

Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.

Samuel Adams

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Sal Albanese

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.