Greatest Political Quotes:

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

- Ronald Reagan

source: Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, delivered 12 June 1987, West Berlin

topic: Wall, Patriotic, Europe, Inspirational Presidential, Soviet Union

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Patriotic, Race, Political, Constitution Of The United States, American Constitution

Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Running, Country, Technology, Announcements, Political Systems

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Children, Destiny, Men, Ordinary Man, Greatest Political

Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world.

- Eric Trump

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Political, Machines, World, Greatest Political

There’s a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. We have "Superman" and all those other hero people, so that we can go out into life and try to be something. I’ve got most of Disney’s animated movies on video-tapes, and when we watch them. Oh, I could just eat it, eat it. […] Jimmy Cricket, Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse – these are world-known characters. Some of the greatest political figures have come to the United States to meet them.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Hero, Character, People, Animated Movies, Greatest Political

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

- Leonard Read

topic: Government, Political, World, Greatest Political

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

- Thomas A. Edison

source: "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

topic: Political, Principles, Constitution, Paine, Greatest Political

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

- Daniel Webster

topic: Evil, Political, Currency, Evil Spirits, Greatest Political

There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.

- John Adams

source: John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.511

topic: Party, Humble, Government, Great Party, Opposition Parties

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

- Gianfranco Fini

source: Interview with Alberto Statera published in La Stampa, April 1994.

topic: Leader, Political, Century, Greatest Political

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

- Wavy Gravy

topic: Political, Needs, Looks, Political Education, Greatest Political

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

- Marco Rubio

source: Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

topic: Party, Political, Tea, Greatest Political

Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

- Robert McKee

topic: Moving, Two, Profound, Adolph Hitler, Profound Truth

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

- Shirley Chisholm

topic: Political, Mouths, Kind, Greatest Political

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

- Paul Tsongas

topic: Country, Achievement, Political, Greatest Political