Quotes of: Political-statement Keyword

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

Steve Earle

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

Cliff Stearns

That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.

Mario Monti

Reform as such is inherently reactionary and perpetuates psychological dependence on the enemy,while confusing the true class contradictions between ourselves and the enemy.

Message To The Black Movement: A Political Statement From The Black Underground

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

Shahrukh Khan

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

Linus Torvalds

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk...

Mohsin Hamid

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

Christine Lagarde

I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.

Tom Selleck

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.

Alfredo Stroessner

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

Dave Matthews

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by ...

J. G. Ballard

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

Javier Bardem

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

Brent Musburger

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things th...

Alexei Navalny

It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.

Lauren Bush

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

Lena Dunham

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.

Michelle Gomez

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

Marjane Satrapi

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

Samantha Morton