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Quotes About Politics

My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
~ Anohni
And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.
~ Kathy Acker
Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand.
~ Helen Suzman
Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.
~ Don Young
I am State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070, which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer. Fear mongering and misinformation is the tool of the Left against this common sense legislation.
~ Russell Pearce
The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.
~ Armando Iannucci
I am sick and tired of folks that are doing everything they can to try to get a bad bill going, and then they vote against it when the bad bill's got the momentum to go through. We should be doing everything, using every tool in our toolbox, to stop bad legislation from happening.
~ Matt Salmon
Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.
~ Mo Ibrahim
Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
~ Sam Graves
The euro is a potent tool used by Germany to engage in permanent monetary dumping.
~ Marine Le Pen
The 'Black Panther' series was never really about the Black Panther at all. The State Department guy, Everett K. Ross, was the series protagonist, so politics was simply a logical part of the character's tool set.
~ Christopher Priest
Saudi Arabia is a very responsible country. For decades, we used our oil policy as responsible economic tool and isolated it from politics.
~ Khalid A. Al-Falih
But when you meet with the enemy and genuinely try to understand his or her perspective, you lose the enemy as a political tool. And that's the eternal obstacle.
~ S.E. Cupp
In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.
~ Ziggy Marley
Politicians want people to be nice neighbours, but the tools at their disposal are just the tools of modern liberal society, which are nothing.
~ Alain de Botton
The women's movement gave me a set of tools to think about things like my body and how people react to me and the way that my dating life was going. It's a very practical movement - yes, it's about issues like how we can get more women MPs elected, but it's also about how feminism affects things like your relationship.
~ Naomi Alderman
There's an ideological belief on the left that you should not use nonpartisan tools.
~ Steve Hilton
I am Brexit tooth and claw, but we need to be pragmatic and sensible and leave with a deal.
~ James Cleverly
Colin Powell has said over the years that Saddam Hussein is like a toothache. It recurs from time to time, and you just have to live with it. At other times, he's compared Saddam Hussein to a kidney stone that will eventually pass. But he has never said, 'You have to operate and take out the kidney stone.'
~ Elaine Sciolino
The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
~ Noam Chomsky
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
~ W. Averell Harriman
The anti-Hindi agitation changed the entire face of Tamil Nadu with a local party emerging on the top, relegating the Congress.
~ Shiv Nadar
The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.
~ Wadah Khanfar