Quotes of: Political-prisoners Keyword

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

Arundhati Roy

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

Jose Andres Puerta

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

George Will

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

Noam Chomsky

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

Monica Crowley

In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.

Andrew O'Hagan

No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

Henry F. Ashurst

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

Julie Burchill

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

Lyman Beecher

Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.

Shawn Amos

The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well.

Carne Ross

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

Eliot Spitzer

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

Jeb Bush

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

John le Carre

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

John Key

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Molly Ivins

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

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

Olympia Snowe

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

Rutherford B. Hayes

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Winston Churchill

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

Tom Daschle