Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John James Ingalls

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

John Howard

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

John Hewson

I'm not tied to any particular political line.

John F. Kerry

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

John Donne

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

John Oliver

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

Joe Klein

I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.

Joe Klein

Political courage requires clarity.

Joe Klein

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

Garry Trudeau

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

Frank Carlucci

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

Frank Chodorov

Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.

Gaylord Nelson

It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.

Lord Acton

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Louise Jameson

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

Louis D. Brandeis

Democracy is moral before it is political.

Loretta Swit

We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to

Lord Byron

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.