I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

I was considering running for political office.

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.

I’ve said it before, history repeats itself for those who don’t learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and...

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle...

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it’s through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

…British appeasement of the Palestinian Arabs led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews [in the Holocaust] who might otherwise have found refuge in Palestine.

People always ask me ‘do you think there should be more bands doing political music?’ and I say ‘absolutely not.’

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.”Alfred E. Smith, governor of...

Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.

It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and...

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

We’re not a political band. We don’t want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by...

Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks – through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward propaganda – to present an image of Reagan that is so...

I don’t get into heavy political numbers because I don’t find them lyrical.

Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips...

Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.

Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?”–Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor

Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing our democracy. They wrote the Constitution and added a Bill of Rights that intended for people of all classes to enjoy the freedoms the Constitution offers....

John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to...

Every film is a political act; it’s how you see the world.

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what’s going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.

I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.

When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m beginning to think they just don’t want...

I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind of fire wall against Iranian fundamentalism. And as it developed over the 1980s,...

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

I’ve always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don’t sit down and think: ‘What political message can I sell?’ I love the creativity of it.

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China’s ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China’s younger generation.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to...

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

I was very political when JFK ran.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It’s the blind mass that crushes the individual.

Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although,...

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

No man is fit to be a Senator… unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

This communist talk is so confusing

Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.

Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a...

Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.