Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas A. Edison

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

Simon Bolivar

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

Sidney Hook

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

Sidney Hillman

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

Kate Smith

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

Leonard Cohen

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Phil Gramm

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

Leo Strauss

All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

Larry Kramer

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

Larry Niven

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

Karl Popper

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Popper

The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

Joel Miller

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

Joel Miller

Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.

Joe Biden

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

John F. Kennedy

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

James Madison

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Jimi Hendrix

There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

John McCain

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

Walter Benjamin

I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty

we were all responsible in one way or another for the political violence that took place during the polls.

There are no technical questions. As for political questions, NASA's administration today is resolving them in a positive manner.

Terry Eagleton

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

Abbie Hoffman

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Aeschylus

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

Adrienne Rich

Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.

Adrienne Rich

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

Adam Smith

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

Adam Hochschild

In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.

Fatos Nano

We will rebuild Albania without Berisha as a political factor.

Dambisa Moyo

The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.

Dave Matthews

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.