Man is by nature a political animal.

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people’s lives.

Politically, Obama’s amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

Everyone can be a leader irrespective of their age, race, creed, nationality or political affiliation. Once you can figure out your talents and optimize them very well, at the right place and at the right...

Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own limitations justify pessimism. But some mysterious factor deep in the human psyche has...

The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had...

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.

I don’t have a political bone in my body.

And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political...

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have...

This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfere in everything, even in their daily quarrels with their wives.

Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.

I’m very proud that our country still produces people like my son, who choose the path less traveled; that knowingly step up to serve, even though our country is tearing itself apart with things like...

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine...

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

We keep electing council members for appearance sake, it doesn’t mean anything, and it is just a show for the people, so that they may sleep well at night with their delusion of peace.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

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

There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different.

I have always been afraid of banks.

[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won’t trust in them – and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of...

En cambio, la fortuna política es un largo orgasmo, querido. El éxito tiene que ser mediato y lento en llegar para ser duradero. Un largo orgasmo, querido.

Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism – Leninism.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don’t do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices – and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn’t resolve them.

If we didn’t have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

…if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones

It seems like we’ve got more of a political theme this year,

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!

And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.

Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of...

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there’ll be additional violence.

Well, I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I’ve learned quickly these last few days that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the...

Be careful when building walls to protect yourself. Those same walls may cage you in.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

There is no such condition as ‘schizophrenia’, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be...

The Libertarian Party convention wasn’t much better. You will never find a more stammering, awkward, inarticulate group of people than libertarians. I still remember the convention the previous year, entitled ‘Women of Liberty.’ All of...

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has...

Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not…it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home...

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think...

Palestine is the anvil of our souls.

In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in...

Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing’s funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party...