Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Lenin

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

Walter Annenberg

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Walter Bagehot

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

Wanda Sykes

What gets me is when celebrities aren't allowed to have an opinion on anything political. There's the whole 'Shut up and sing' thing.

W. H. Auden

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

Upton Sinclair

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

Robert Hughes

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

Robertson Davies

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Robert Peel

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Saul Alinsky

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.

Sandra Day O'Connor

[G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.

Ronald Reagan

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

Will Self

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

Will Self

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.

Will Rogers

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

Will Rogers

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

Will Rogers

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

Will Rogers

They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

Will Rogers

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

Will Rogers

Be a politician; no training necessary.

Will Rogers

I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

Will Rogers

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Wes Craven

But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

Ziggy Marley

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

Youssou N'Dour

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

Vladimir Putin

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

Wavy Gravy

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

Walter Lippmann

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

Walter Lippmann

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Voltaire

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.