Political Sayings

I am not a politician. I am a football player.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Our job is not to make the world safe for democracy, but to make democracy safe for the world.

The greatest of all revolutions is the change in the inner man.

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

The very nature of the film medium demands that the director be a kind of dictator. You have to be.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I'm not a very political person. I just care about people.

Every day people are being oppressed to the point where they are becoming afraid to talk.

I am a simple Soviet man. I was born in a simple family, and I have grown up under the Soviet government.

I have no intention of entering politics.

The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

I calculated to be one of the instruments of setting up the kingdom of Daniel by the word of the Lord, and I intended to lay a foundation that would revolutionize the whole world.

Permit me to say that, in my humble judgment, I never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one observes the actual requirements of man’s survival and prosperity, one finds that all three of the foregoing—reason, egoi…

The way in which we think about the causes of human behavior has changed in a way that suggests that we are at an early stage of a scientific revolution.

I am a moral, a religious, and a political bigot. I am for the most rigorous morality, the most fervent religion, and the most uncompromising politics.

I was not a 'revolutionary' in the sense of a man with a message. The only thing I was aware of was that I was doing my work, and that it was a question of going forward.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the rights of the individual, and a citizenry wise enough to understand that there is no safety in numbers, in wealth, or in any other form of self-interest.