Top 37 Political Commentary Quotes
#1. I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn't feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I'm a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn't mean they should vote for the person I like. That's why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements.
Bob Newhart
#2. Everybody who's ever influenced me, from a Richard Prior to a Whoopie Goldberg to, you know, any of the voices that have resonated with me as a performer since I was a kid, you know, you couldn't really say that their work didn't have some element of political commentary in it.
Sarah Jones
#3. I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.
Ed Koch
#4. A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.
Lisa Schwarzbaum
#5. It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.
Jodie Foster
#6. I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
Aloe Blacc
#7. 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
#8. The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.
Norman Finkelstein
#10. If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?
Victoria Stoklasa
#11. As America slept, our constitutional quilt was slowly being unraveled by special interest... I hope you like the cold.
A.J. Garces
#12. One good thing about being an immigrant in the US, no one cares about my sociopolitical opinion. I exist like a bland wallpaper to all races.
Fidelis O. Mkparu
#13. Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.
Steven Pressfield
#14. We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people ...
T. Rafael Cimino
#15. I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans.
Carroll Bryant
#16. America isn't a country; it's a marketplace. The more you sell, the more at home you'll feel.
Iimani David
#17. Do you prefer to be with people who glow with love and compassion or those who burn with anger fueled by religious doctrine or political ideology?
Jeff Rasley
#18. I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#19. Bernie Saunders is like a fly buzzing around a bowl of rotten fruit. Long hail this fly!
Marge Simon
#20. The premise that America's power and influence was rooted in its wealth was wrong to begin with. To the contrary, our strength comes from America's magical stuff. It is something intangible, something invulnerable, something no measure of evil, no amount of violence or bloodshed can destroy.
Rick Elkin
#21. Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture we're involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.
Caterina Scorsone
#22. Have you ever found yourself saying, "There ought to be a law against this," or, "Somebody should do something"? Well, here's the good news - you can be the one to do something. You can be the one to make the law.
Victoria Stoklasa MA
#23. I had this terrible nightmare; I dreamt I was a politician and they were dragging me off to parliament
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#24. A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.
Colin Quinn
#25. By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Victoria Stoklasa
#27. Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
H.L. Mencken
#28. I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.
Kanye West
#29. he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as practised by Clive James, Gore Vidal, and Michael Foot.
Duncan Wu
#30. Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq - that's got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.
Russell Brand
#31. The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.
Rachel Maddow
#32. If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out.
And the journey starts NOW.
Jasper Fforde
#33. A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
Alan M. Dershowitz
#34. A mother was thinking of how to keep her naughty child in line she tried using the boogey man it didn't work ... she thought and thought then said "the Politician is going to get you" and he was never naughty again
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#35. If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks.
Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
#36. My favorite Congressional incongruity: ... Red State legislators galumphing from meeting to meeting in full pancake makeup. Estee Lauder may well make more money on Capitol Hill than in Beverly Hills.
Frank Bruni
#37. I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
Barbara Kingsolver
