Quotes About Politics

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.

Hillary Clinton hates Julian Assange, she is just an adversary of internet freedom.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

Chinese people don't care about freedom, but they do care about justice.

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

Fear has become normal and is covered by the idea of "patriotism".

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.