Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Cuomo

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Marilyn Manson

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

Meir Kahane

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

Mason Cooley

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

Michel Foucault

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

Patterson Hood

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

Oscar Wilde

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

Louis L'Amour

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Lizz Winstead

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

Lizz Winstead

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

Michael Crichton

Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

Michael Kinsley

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

Benjamin Netanyahu

So, I think that has to be resolved when we have a real political partner, and I think we will,

Alexis de Tocqueville

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

only does the right thing under public political pressure.

Monday-morning quarterbacking that you see at a political convention.

Jean-Claude Juncker

The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.

Jim Hightower

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

Jim Hightower

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

Jerry Pournelle

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

Jerry Saltz

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

Jens Stoltenberg

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.

Jesse Helms

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

Jesse Jackson

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

Jesse Jackson

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Jeffrey Rosen

[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely enacted from the bench.

Jeffrey Sachs

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

Jeff Flake

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

Jean Chretien

Vision is not political rhetoric.

James Carville

I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.