Political Quotes

Our political divides have become our personal divides.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.

It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.

I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.

A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.

The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.