Top 100 Politically Quotes

#1. Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.

Charles Koch

Politically Quotes #532
#2. We're going to protect Christianity. We don't have to be politically correct about it.

Donald Trump

Politically Quotes #912
#3. I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

Davy Crockett

Politically Quotes #1548
#4. He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.

James Finn Garner

Politically Quotes #2831
#5. To be passionate in today's world is not politically correct ... Nowadays we are supposed to cope. This was not Mahler's problem. He saw it, he heard it, and he expressed it. He was a kaleidoscopic, Olympian figure.

Lorin Maazel

Politically Quotes #6347
#6. The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

Robert Redford

Politically Quotes #11796
#7. I prospered very quickly. Very quickly, I became politically empowered. I was running my own business.

Joyce Banda

Politically Quotes #12363
#8. Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

Charlaine Harris

Politically Quotes #18115
#9. Sociopath was really just a politically correct way to say "the devil".

Jack Pendarvis

Politically Quotes #18142
#10. Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.

Gore Vidal

Politically Quotes #20739
#11. Experts are saying that President Bush's goal now is to politically humiliate Saddam Hussein. Why don't we just make him the next Democratic presidential nominee?

Jay Leno

Politically Quotes #24940
#12. All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.

Vladimir Putin

Politically Quotes #28639
#13. I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.

Thomas Sadoski

Politically Quotes #35597
#14. I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

David Byrne

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

Laurie Anderson

Politically Quotes #38345
#16. There is no politically neutral art.

Bell Hooks

Politically Quotes #39320
#17. If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

John Cusack

Politically Quotes #39470
#18. Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the Eurozone.

Michael Hudson

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#19. The (Iraq) war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization,

Harry Reid

Politically Quotes #39958
#20. Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.

Robert M. Price

Politically Quotes #43817
#21. But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups.

Robert Higgs

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#22. Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!

Mitt Romney

Politically Quotes #47016
#23. I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

Saul Williams

Politically Quotes #48432
#24. I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

Beth Ditto

Politically Quotes #52259
#25. I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

Stephen Colbert

Politically Quotes #53002
#26. We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.

Greg Nickels

Politically Quotes #53607
#27. Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

Franz Beckenbauer

Politically Quotes #57502
#28. I don't have to come back politically, but I would like to do something that will help the people of Thailand. There must be a process under which I can come back. I want to come back to clear the chaos in Thailand, the civil war in Thailand.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Politically Quotes #58484
#29. I don't want to send my money to a bunch of Hugo Chavez-loving, Ivy League ideologically educated, politically opportunistic careerist in Washington, D.C.

Sean Hannity

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#30. The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.

Gail Collins

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#31. I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.

Deborah Kass

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#32. The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

Ben Affleck

Politically Quotes #73151
#33. I grew up in a very politically aware family. My mother always taught me to question everything, never believing anything simply at face value - especially the nicest, most adamant politicians.

Dave Matthews

Politically Quotes #73683
#34. We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that has never understood us, tried to marginalize and politically assassinate all of our leaders whenever they came to challenge the status quo.

Immortal Technique

Politically Quotes #74193
#35. In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Bill Gates

Politically Quotes #75910
#36. Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.

Cybill Shepherd

Politically Quotes #75971
#37. Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Politically Quotes #76906
#38. I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.

Garry Shandling

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#39. All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

Richard John Neuhaus

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#40. It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

Christine Lagarde

Politically Quotes #93439
#41. Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.

Denis Waitley

Politically Quotes #95062
#42. My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.

Assata Shakur

Politically Quotes #96050
#43. At ordinary times, then, we are perfectly certain that men are not equal. But when, in a democratic country, we think or act politically we are no less certain that men are equal. Or at any rate - which comes to the same thing in practice - we behave as though we were certain of men's equality.

Aldous Huxley

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#44. It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.

Kathryn Harrison

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#45. Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.

Harry S. Truman

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

Constance Zimmer

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#47. I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were politically active and also passionate about the same things that I was interested in. It was a great match for me.

Stephen Beal

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#48. "We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields - politically, militarily and materially ... " "It was very probable that the Jordan army might start the battle."

Ahmad Shukeiri

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#49. When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

Richard Lindzen

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#50. Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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#51. 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

Politically Quotes #118779
#52. It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

Robert D. Kaplan

Politically Quotes #124016
#53. A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land.
I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.

Deborah Smith

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#54. Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife ... To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.

Shamcher Bryn Beorse

Politically Quotes #125991
#55. If we're going to make a politically responsible and a scientifically sensible claim it should not be stop the world exactly where it is because that's not possible. It has to be to decide what kind of world do we as human beings want to live in.

Richard Lewontin

Politically Quotes #126952
#56. Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Ehud Olmert

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#57. It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

George W. Romney

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#58. 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

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#59. I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

Mort Sahl

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#60. Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

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#61. My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

Max Weinberg

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#62. Democratic Development is a process of political struggle in which democrats work gains the upper hand in the society over non-democrats which directs aid at core political processes and institutions especially elections, political parties and politically oriented civil groups.

David Eddings

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#63. A flat-rate poll tax would be politically unsustainable; even with a rebate scheme, the package would have an unacceptable impact on certain types of household.

Nigel Lawson

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#64. I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers.

Barack Obama

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#65. I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

Bianca Jagger

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#66. Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing.Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious.

Shimon Peres

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#67. 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

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#68. I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

Gerald Stern

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#69. 'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

Dennis Hopper

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#70. What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

Patti Smith

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#71. I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food, good wines. I suppose it was because I had total confidence in myself.

Tariq Ali

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#72. To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

Frantz Fanon

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#73. Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.
No judgment implied. Just an observation.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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#74. Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable

Jose Maria Aznar

Politically Quotes #174634
#75. You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

Timothy West

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#76. It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn't be reelected.

Jimmy Carter

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#77. I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.

Alan Greenspan

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#78. I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there.

Arundhati Roy

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#79. It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along I'd never even spent time around a man. Hell, I'd never even seen one. Where were all the men in this once great land?

Sol Luckman

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#80. To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.

Ruth Marcus

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#81. Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.

Judith Butler

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#82. I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.

Dennis C. Blair

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#83. I've been thinking a lot lately about the power of doctrines - how support for a false dogma can become politically mandatory, and how overwhelming contrary evidence only makes such dogmas stronger and more extreme.

Paul Krugman

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#84. We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary.

Al Gore

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#85. Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

Tamara Keith

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#86. Can't call 'em zombies anymore," sighed Manny. He seemed almost wistful. "Now we gotta be all politically correct. It's like the Cold Wars never happened.

David S.E. Zapanta

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#87. I can't write this book. It's not politically correct yet

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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#88. Redmond Howard, a politically aware witness to the Rising and a critic of the rebels, wrote in its aftermath: 'There never was, I believe, an Irish crime -- if crime it can be called -- which had not its roots in an English folly.

Tim Pat Coogan

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#89. In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Olympia Snowe

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#90. I keep my distance from politics. Lots of money has been offered to me for campaigning over the years, and I have always refused. I used to be very politically aware and very opinionated, but I don't want to involve myself.

Bipasha Basu

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#91. If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

Siraj Wahhaj

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#92. What I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don't call him stupid because they don't agree with you politically.

Bill Maher

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#93. 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

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#94. Google is a private company. It has the capacity to utilize its massive power for whatever political agenda it chooses. But for it to pretend to be an advocate for Internet freedom while simultaneously disadvantaging messages it finds politically incorrect is deeply hypocritical.

Ben Shapiro

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#95. Physical difference frightens people in our culture more than anything else. You can be aberrant as hell mentally, politically, socially, but do one little thing physically - put a bone in your nose - and boy, you're in trouble!

Fakir Musafar

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#96. I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

Italo Calvino

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#97. By focusing only on jobs and inflation - and, in effect, only on the former - the Fed behaved myopically, indeed politically.

Raghuram G. Rajan

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#98. Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where we are not surrendering the right. We must stay with the right and if we do so God will bless us.

Heber J. Grant

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#99. Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.

Lenny Bruce

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#100. Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large.

George Steiner

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