Political Sayings

107 sayings found from the Contemporary era from 107 authors

I am a convinced communist. This is my main credo.

— Mikhail Gorbachev 1991
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I am tired of being president.

— Boris Yeltsin 1999
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Sometimes you have to be politically incorrect.

— Donald Trump 2015-2016
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I am a democrat, and I believe in the power of arguments.

— Angela Merkel 2017
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I am a simple electrician, but I know that in politics you have to be tough.

— Lech Walesa 1990s
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Politics, when it is done well, is a service to others, not a means to personal power or enrichment.

— Vaclav Havel 1990s
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The regime of truth is not a universal truth, but a historical truth.

— Michel Foucault 1972 (interview)
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

— Noam Chomsky 2003
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The idea of public reason specifies the political values that are to guide the exercise of political power.

— John Rawls 1993
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All knowledge is political.

— Edward Said 1978
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The political is the experience of the undecidable.

— Jacques Derrida 1997
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Globalization represents a challenge to national sovereignty and democratic self-governance.

— Jurgen Habermas 2006
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I am a communist, but I am also a pervert.

— Slavoj Zizek 2012
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To be a democrat is to believe in the power of ordinary people.

— Cornel West 1990s
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The idea that women have been oppressed for centuries is an insult to the women who lived and suffered and died during those centuries.

— Jordan Peterson 2018
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The biggest political question of the 21st century will be 'What do we do with all the useless people?'

— Yuval Noah Harari 2018
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The problem with government is that it's designed to solve problems, but it often creates more.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2019
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Governments must treat the internet as a basic utility—like water.

— Tim Berners-Lee 2014
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

— Toni Morrison 1998
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I'm not a political person. I'm a human being. And I'm concerned about human beings.

— Maya Angelou 1998
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