Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Voltaire

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Wilhelm Reich

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

Walter F. Mondale

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

Vladimir Putin

There are complicated processes going on in society in the Crimea. There are problems of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian population, the Russian population, the Slavic population in general, but this is Ukraine's domestic political problem.

Vladimir Putin

Nothing matters for a drastic change in Ukraine more than political transformations.

Vladimir Putin

Russia should be an effective and competitive state with a sustainable economy, developed social and political system flexible to changes domestically and globally.

Vladimir Putin

I will not meddle in America's internal political squabbles.

Yo-Yo Ma

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

Winston Churchill

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Winston Churchill

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

Winston Churchill

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Winston Churchill

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Winston Churchill

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

Rick Warren

I'm not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I'm a pastor.

Rick Warren

I'm not looking for peace on earth through a political solution. I'm a pastor. The Bible talks about three kinds of peace. There is peace with God. There's the peace of God. And there's peace with each other.

Tracey Ullman

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political

Tracey Ullman

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Vince Flynn

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

Rebecca Solnit

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Samuel Johnson

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

Ronald Reagan

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

Ronald Reagan

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

William Hazlitt

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Wendell Phillips

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

Wendell Phillips

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

Wendell Phillips

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Wynton Marsalis

We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet.

William O. Douglas

The Constitution favors no racial group, no political or social group.

Zebulon Pike

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

Zadie Smith

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

Thabo Mbeki

Our political relations can only go from strength to strength,

Ollanta Humala

I'm a victim of an anti-democratic campaign, a political ambush.