Political Quotes

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

The Zionists, who constituted a strong political party in Europe, caused much disorder there.

Think about it – most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values – hope and change.

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.