Political Figures Quotes

#1. Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe ... and it worries me.

Tony Judt

#2. Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are far more important symbols than any politician today, and they occupy the space that iconic political figures did in earlier eras.

Fareed Zakaria

#3. The best political figures create the impression that they find everyone they encounter to be what Abigail Adams said Jefferson was: one of the choice ones of the earth.

Jon Meacham

#4. The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

Bob Woodward

#5. Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.

Paul Krugman

#6. If I were to give you a list of names of the people, world political figures, who have been assisted by the CIA, and even assisted to office around the world, you'd be astonished and probably wouldn't believe it. But it's very long, and the names are very distinguished.

Charles McCarry

#7. When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

Pat Boone

#8. I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

Anna Deavere Smith

#9. This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

Jesse Helms

#10. Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they're writing about. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.

Raymond Pettibon

#11. It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

Stockwell Day

#12. You don't doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same sex-marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you? ... As far as I can tell, political figures are falling over themselves to endorse your side of the case.

John Roberts

#13. To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can use to attract attention, attract voters. And get influence in our society.

Alexander Stille

#14. A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

Russell Baker

#15. Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

Bob Woodward

#16. Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.

Stephen Kinzer

#17. When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

Thomas L. Friedman

#18. The healthy man is the thin man. But you don't need to go hungry for it: Remove the flours, starches and sugars; that's all.

Samael Aun Weor

#19. I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup.

Daniel Radcliffe

#20. Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work.

Glenn Greenwald

#21. [The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.

Samuel Johnson

#22. God is not a duplicator, He is a Creator. You are an original!

Reinhard Bonnke

#23. There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

Paul Graham

#24. Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

Grace Napolitano

#25. I don't think good films have messages.

Julia Leigh

#26. Beirut is where I was born and raised.

Reem Acra

#27. It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

Howard Zinn

#28. It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good historical scenes: for it is culturally (this connotation is present in studium) that I participate in the figures, the faces, the gestures, the settings, the actions.

Roland Barthes

#29. I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.

Muhammad Ali

#30. You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

George W. Bush

#31. A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

Seth Rogen

#32. The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

Patti Smith

#33. That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

Mary McDonnell

#34. I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.

Gene Hackman

#35. I live my memoirs, I don't have to write them down.

Karl Lagerfeld

#36. For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth.

Gabriel Brunsdon

#37. We're all waiting for something.

Frank Warren

#38. I had never supported a political figure - and I went out and supported Obama.

Will Ferrell

#39. The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.

Evan Osnos

#40. From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

Narendra Modi

#41. His young wife - thirty years his junior - ran toward him with open arms. Rather than simply embracing him, she leaped onto him, wrapped all four limbs around him like a squid, and clung.

Daniel Arenson

#42. 'Star Wars' was something that I was definitely interested in. Whether or not I was really involved isn't something that I should probably disclose.

Jack Reynor

#43. AIDS is big business, maybe Africa's biggest business. There's nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on AIDS. AIDS is a political disease here, and we should be very skeptical.

James Shikwati