All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

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

Dubya! What in Tarnation!? Why, I'll tan yer hide fer this!So, what's sex like after fifty, anyway?

I'm all for raw milk. I think you should make your own choice on whether you drink raw milk or not.

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

Amber London is a political rapper, a preaching rapper who speaks true facts and not just nonsense.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

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