Quotes of: Political-prisoners Keyword

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

Barbara Kingsolver

I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

Shekhar Kapur

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

Milton Friedman

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

Anselm Kiefer

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

Jill Lepore

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Steven Pinker

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

Robert Carlyle

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

Paul Johnson

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Andrew Jackson

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

Charlie Munger

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

John Rawls

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

Al Gore

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

Don Nickles

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

George J. Mitchell

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Bob Marley

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

Gerald R. Ford

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

Charles Osgood

I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.

Carl Paladino

The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

Bobby Jindal

I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.

Gabriela Isler

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.

Helen Fisher