Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.

I've never joined any political party and have no plans to do so. I'm fully independent.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

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

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

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

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