Quotes About Politics

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

I don't really like to infuse music with politics - but I wouldn't say as a general statement that it shouldn't be.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.