Political Arena Quotes

#1. Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

Hillary Clinton

#2. Some people use NVC to respond compassionately to themselves, some to create greater depth in their personal relationships, and still others to build effective relationships at work or in the political arena. Worldwide, NVC is used to mediate disputes and conflicts at all levels.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#3. Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

Ronee Blakley

#4. My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

Yo-Yo Ma

#5. We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

J. C. Watts

#6. Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena.

Duncan Hunter

#7. I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

George Pataki

#8. The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses in the world. They've always been hilarious since the beginning of time.

Paul Mooney

#9. Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

Noam Chomsky

#10. Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

Jim Hightower

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

Bella Abzug

#12. I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

Nikki Haley

#13. I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

Donny Osmond

#14. Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage.

Tom Brokaw

#15. The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

Walter Dean Myers

#16. Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#17. Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to our country by removing the influence of religion. If you separate God from the public arena, inevitably you separate good from our government.

Bill Bright

#18. We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.

Anna Lindh

#19. I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.

Chuck Norris

#20. A clear pattern soon emerged, as demonstrated by many polls: the more prominently Christians entered the political arena, the more negatively they were viewed by the rest of society.

Philip Yancey

#21. If you abandon the political arena, somebody is going to be there. Corporations aren't going to go home and join the PTA. They are going to run things.

Noam Chomsky

#22. Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.

Donna Brazile

#23. My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

Charles Tupper

#24. On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

Vicente Fox

#25. It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the formal political arena in a way that would disperse power and engage with people in their own lives.

David Blunkett

#26. You need vision to transform political arena

Sunday Adelaja

#27. I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

Camryn Manheim

#28. Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.

Robert Byrd

#29. Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

Bram Cohen

#30. The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

Stockwell Day

#31. Gerald Ford brought to the political arena no demons, no hidden agenda, no hit list or acts of vengeance. He knew who he was, and he didn't require consultants or gurus to change him.

Tom Brokaw

#32. The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

Peter Garrett

#33. The crisis of democracy as when normally passive and apathetic populations become organized and seek to enter the political arena to pursue their interests and demands, threatening stability and order.

Noam Chomsky

#34. I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

Ami Ayalon

#35. The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Emma Goldman

#36. In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.

Eliot Spitzer

#37. During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.? The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.

Noam Chomsky

#38. Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it's, it's time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena.

Thaksin Shinawatra

#39. Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.

Noam Chomsky

#40. Political realists see the world as it is: an arena of power politics moved primarily by perceived immediate self-interests, where morality is rhetorical rationale for expedient action and self-interest.

Saul D. Alinsky

#41. Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Robert Hughes

#42. It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.

Margaret Stohl

#43. The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.

Carol Moseley Braun

#44. I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.

Jeremy Northam

#45. I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

J. C. Watts

#46. Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

Charles Colson