Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.

Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.

I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

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

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Nevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary.

Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.

I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.

The security challenge is related to the progress and advance we make in the political process.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

Putting Americans at risk for a political reason I think is wrong and I think it's unfortunate.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Medicare in particular, will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.

Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

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