I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

It's never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.

The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

I hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it.

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

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

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