I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Donald Trump lives and operates in a political world, but he's not political. This is what people still don't get.

I don't think Hillary Clinton will get any sort of political honeymoon like George W Bush or Barack Obama enjoyed.

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

I think it`s going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.

Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

The Endangered Species Act was designed to preserve biodiversity, not enrich trial lawyers and political activists.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

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