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Quotes About Political

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
~ Hamid Karzai
Unfortunately for the American people, the Obama-Clinton-Rice cabal that led to the Benghazi cover-up was far more interested in political-damage control than serious damage assessment.
~ Tom Fitton
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.
~ Daniel Webster
The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.
~ Lucy Burns
...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
~ Arundhati Roy
I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women
~ Charles Fourier
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.
~ Frederick Lenz
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
~ Salman Rushdie
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
~ Susan B. Anthony
The hard truth is that Trump was not exceptional. He was just another amoral Western businessman, one of many whom the ex-KGB elite have promoted and sponsored around the world, with the hope that they might eventually be of some political or commercial use.
~ Anne Applebaum
Well organised displays of spontaneous support is one of the New Labour machine's specialities.
~ John McDonnell
As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well.
~ Jill Biden
In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
~ G. Willow Wilson
The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.
~ Richard Engel
The Left wants to silence conservative Christians in the media and in the political square.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
I went to squat with a bunch of friends - creative, intelligent, political people. We got involved in a community project funded by the Arts Council and we made this video. I sang a poem and somebody, I think it was Richard Coles, who was later my partner in the Communards, said I had a very strange sound and I should use it.
~ Jimmy Somerville
We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.
~ Joko Widodo
Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.
~ Dmitry Medvedev
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
~ Samantha Power
Young Chinese, who have grown up in an age of prosperity and stability, are typically the most passionate defenders of the Chinese political and economic way.
~ Evan Osnos
I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations.
~ Alex Morrison
In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health.
~ Baba Kalyani