Top 40 Political Figure Quotes
#1. Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it.
Robert Orben
#2. Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
Wendy Davis
#3. Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?
Will.i.am
#4. I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.
Muhammad Ali
#5. I think that behind the scenes the Pope [Francis] is seen as more of a religious figure, but obviously he is sort of a global political figure.
Joy-Ann Reid
#6. You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.
George W. Bush
#7. Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that.
Jennifer Palmieri
#8. In designing for the first lady, I tried to sort of be in her shoes, but I didn't really look at her as an important political figure. I looked at her as a woman who would like to wear a beautiful dress to an important gala.
Jason Wu
#9. Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession.
Stephen Kinzer
#10. I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.
Princess Diana
#11. Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.
Newt Gingrich
#12. I had never supported a political figure - and I went out and supported Obama.
Will Ferrell
#14. My parents never projected their dreams onto me. If they hoped I would be a great pitcher, or political figure, or artist (no chance), they never told me about it. Their view of parenting was to offer love and encourage me to chart my own path.
George W. Bush
#15. There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.
Peggy Noonan
#17. I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.
Princess Diana
#18. The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.
Henry A. Kissinger
#19. In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.
Michel Foucault
#20. Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal and bloody fields of political mission.
Michael Eric Dyson
#21. The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.
Dick Morris
#22. Damn it, if just 5% of people got motivated in some direction, and it doesn't necessarily have to be what I believe in, but if they just got motivated and stopped getting their political ideologies from the mainstream media, they would go out and figure out what they want.
Alex Jones
#23. It's very difficult, I would imagine, to distinguish father and daughter. And maybe some of it comes as I'm doing my thing and my father being a very strong political African figure for so many years. Whatever he does is almost like some kind of cloud on top.
Isabel Dos Santos
#24. There are many Americans who regardless of the intelligence or the profound political persuasion of a figure will never vote for a black man. Not all of them are racists; some are skeptical, and some are suspicious.
Michael Eric Dyson
#25. The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
Wale
#26. Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
Molly Ivins
#27. Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.
Francois Arnaud
#28. I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer.
Gloria Steinem
#29. An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency ... Manna for political junkies ... Thoroughly researched ... humanizes a figure considered periodically out-of-touch even by some of his admirers.
Carlo Wolff
#30. A 2013 study by Riley Dunlap and political scientist Peter Jacques found that a striking 72 percent of climate denial books, mostly published since the 1990s, were linked to right-wing think tanks, a figure that rises to 87 percent if self-published books (increasingly common) are excluded.23
Naomi Klein
#31. We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.
Lee Scott
#32. A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.
Vladimir Putin
#33. It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.
Deborah Eisenberg
#34. I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
Fidel Castro
#35. You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution problem ... all I know is in my own life, I need to figure out some sense of purpose, I need to figure out how to be happy ... and I'm willing.
Jewel
#36. Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
Paul Klee
#37. Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to 'get off my property.' News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.
John Scalzi
#38. All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
Roland Barthes
#39. Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.
Jess Walter
#40. A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is. That's because rhetorically and substantively, he seems to be in another world ...
Jonah Goldberg
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