Quotes of: Political-career Keyword

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

Glenn Greenwald

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

David Harvey

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

Edmund S. Muskie

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Douglas Sirk

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Gustave Flaubert

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Konrad Adenauer

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Roger Stone

It's not polite to ask if a man has a big salami in his pants, okay?

Shattered

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

On Liberty

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

Dick Murphy

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

Maynard Jackson

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.

Rob Reiner

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

Jude Law

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

Omar Bongo

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

Otto von Bismarck

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Oliver Goldsmith

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.

Patricia Highsmith

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

Paul Kantner

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

Paul Ryan

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

Paul Ryan

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

Paul Wellstone