Quotes About Politics

Good or bad people can be democratically elected, but it is always easy to fight for human rights under this system.

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

I love music; I love performance. I love everything revolving around art. But I also am really passionate about politics and human rights and science and the environment. Those are things that fascinate me.

I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

I do think that every super power on the globe has a very poor record on human rights.

Countries often prioritise economic interests over human rights - hence all the kowtowing to China.

Human suffering is not, nor should it ever be, a political issue.

There's a lot of politics in football, and sometimes the real values of the sport, those human values, get lost.

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn't. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there's anxiety about making the wrong one.

We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

Trump has humbled our country under the shadow of China's autocrat Xi Jinping.

Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?

Politicians don't laugh very often. That is their problem. Humour is very important in politics and I think the politicians should laugh more to get better results.

Do I think that Trump needs to be better on racism? One hundred percent.

If you are the executive, you're probably going to have more of an impact than if you're one of a hundred members of the Senate, certainly one of 435 members of the House.

My position on guns is the same position I've had for a long, long time. That position is that I don't line up a hundred percent with the NRA. I don't see eye to eye with the NRA on every issue.

Fox News Latino will show people how opportunities exist, that whenever we are overregulated, or there is too much government, we lose freedom. We lose power. That is, historically, one hundred percent true.

This is quite public knowledge. The South African government has said they're doing it. They've started seizing their first couple hundred farms.

I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.