Being Politically Quotes

#1. If you support diversity and think shows should give a portrayal of what America truly looks like, then performers with disabilities must be included in that equation ... People have been very good at being politically correct.

Robert David Hall

#2. Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

Alice Dreger

#3. It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

Michael Bay

#4. I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?

Chuck Norris

#5. Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn't about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

A.R. Rahman

#6. Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. In New Zealand, men and women would not take a party seriously if it did not have a good gender - and increasingly racial - mix. It's not about being politically correct; it's just who we are.

Jenny Shipley

#8. Politicians really worry about being politically correct.

Nikki Sixx

#9. I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

Mike Singletary

#10. I like to be honest, and after all these years I can't be bothered being politically correct.

Sharon Osbourne

#11. Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

Karl Lagerfeld

#12. You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

Johnny Marr

#13. You cannot keep on saying oh, you know, talking about disrespecting women as just being politically correct or it's not a big deal or brushing things off. You've got to be aware of it.

Malcolm Turnbull

#14. I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either.

Donald Trump

#15. Even in his books, where he's allegedly trying to string multiple thoughts together, Trump wanders randomly from impulse to impulse, seemingly without rhyme or reason. He doesn't think anything through. (He's brilliantly cast this driving-blind trait as "not being politically correct.") It

Matt Taibbi

#16. Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round.

Greg Gutfeld

#17. Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

Charles Osgood

#18. Just honest. To me, being 'politically incorrect' means the opposite of being political
which means to spin everything. That's all it's ever meant to me. It's never meant liberal or conservative. It means honest.

Bill Maher

#19. People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

Greg Gutfeld

#20. Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right - creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.

Thomas Sowell

#21. Start being biblically correct, instead of politically correct.

Ted Cruz

#22. There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#23. I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically.

Jim Goldberg

#24. Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

Jodi Picoult

#25. I have lived in Toledo, Ohio, off and on throughout my entire life, and I have plenty of friends who are union members. Sometimes we agree politically and sometimes not, but it has never kept us from being friends.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#26. In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

Amy Carter

#27. Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

Bill O'Reilly

#28. Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.

Charlie Pierce

#29. People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

Joyce Carol Oates

#30. My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.

Ghassan Kanafani

#31. The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

Bernie Mac

#32. People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

Joanna Lumley

#33. We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

Jimmy Wales

#34. The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.

Alicia Keys

#35. When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

Robin Morgan

#36. Don't be ridiculous! You waste less time than anyone I know.'
'You don't know, sweetie. For years I've had down days. Days I just can't cope. Can't get on with anything. Can't get up and out or at it or whatever.'
'Not enough to keep you from being invaluable politically.

Marge Piercy

#37. Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

Mel Brooks

#38. We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

Robert Greene

#39. If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#40. I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.

Naomi Wolf

#41. The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political ... And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change.

Wim Wenders

#42. Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#43. In America now every romantic comedy is interpreted politically. I can remember when I was promoting Black Hawk Down we were all being asked what it said about September 11th. Well, it was shot before that happened, so, nothing.

Eric Bana

#44. I think that people like Bloomberg, they're complete thugs. No question about it. But on the other hand, it must be said that they are politically savvy. They don't get into those positions of power - in the case of Bloomberg, both economic and political power - by being anybody's fool.

Norman Finkelstein

#45. I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.

Thomas Sowell

#46. Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.

Morris Dees

#47. Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint
being in the middle
usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!

Javad Alizadeh

#48. I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

Constance Zimmer

#49. Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.

Robert M. Price

#50. Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

Laurie Anderson