100+ Political View Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

topic: Country, Witty, Peace, Resourceful, Stupid Conservative

I'm way past the idea of using ideology or political view as a gauge of human character. I simply don't believe it. And many people, I tend to think most people, feel that way. Since I don't have to worry about it, I'm happy.

- James Ellroy

source: Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 9, 2010.

topic: Believe, Character, Past, Political View

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

- Carl Karcher

topic: Strong, Views, Political, Political View

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

- Mike Lee

topic: Party, Kids, Views, Political View, Tea Party Movement

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

- Gavyn Davies

topic: Thinking, Views, Long, Governors, Political View

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Inspirational, Responsibility, Men, Political View, National Borders

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

topic: Party, Views, Political, Large Companies, Political View

You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly.

- Billy Gardell

topic: Home, Dark, Night, One Night, Political View

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

- Edith Wharton

source: Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

topic: Views, Political, Literature, Adapted, Political View

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

- Kevin Bacon

topic: Struggle, Artist, Views, Political View

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

- Vince Cable

topic: Father, Boys, Views, Political View

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.

- Jen Lancaster

topic: Book, Views, Political, Political View

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.

- Ted Nugent

topic: Rocks, Views, Rock And Roll, Militant, Political View

Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. ... The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Moving, Government, Views, Income Tax, Strong Economy

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

- Fritz Sauckel

topic: Views, Numbers, Political, Political View

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

- David Horowitz

topic: Rights, Views, Political, Leftists, Firing

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Thinking, Views, Political, Political View

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

- Manuel Puig

topic: Party, Views, Hands, Political Parties, Political View

We have to stop all of the fighting and talking without listening and find a sense of compromise. It's very evident that it could possibly happen. No matter what your political views are, we're in a very dangerous state of politics.

- Edwin Hodge

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Fighting, Talking, Views, Political View

[I talk politics with Ted Turner] quite often. Usually with a great deal of excitement, because he has one political view and I have another. Despite our politics,we've agreed to be friends.

- Lou Dobbs

source: Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

topic: Views, Political, Excitement, Political View

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.

- Jeffrey Toobin

source: Source: www.newyorker.com

topic: Philosophy, Views, Interesting, Political View

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

- Mario Bunge

source: Source: deutsche-denker.de

topic: Political, Historical, Tools, Social Control, Political View

I dealt with people with diverse political views. If you find people who are your political opponents, and talk to them for an hour, chances are you're going to like them, and they're not full of hate.

- Cass Sunstein

source: "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

topic: Hate, Views, People, Political Opponents, Political View

When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.

- Nathaniel Fick

topic: Jobs, Military, Government, Political View

Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

topic: Inspirational, Men, Race, Political View, Center Of The Universe

If you're trying to cast the widest possible net to attract the largest selection of men or women, the last thing you should do is to start listing your income, political views, and the like. Avoid mentioning specific comedians, shows, or movies unless those are top-tier attributes on your list.

- Amy Webb

topic: Men, Views, Political, Political View

It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.

- Elena Kagan

source: "Elena Kagan Under Fire From Republicans". Reuters, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2010.

topic: Views, Two, Political, Political View

do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage

- Brian De Palma

topic: Thinking, Views, Political, Political View

I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.

- Kevin Spacey

topic: Thinking, Views, Political, Political View, Sitting Around

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

- Johnny Ramone

source: FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Feb 25, 2015

topic: Hippie, Thinking, Rocks, Political View

I am interested in making photographs which comment on the experience of a place as well as describe it. My position has not typically been one of advocacy for or against any political position. But I regard photographs as commentary, and that includes, at times, taking a specific political viewpoint on an issue.

- Mark Klett

topic: Issues, Political, Viewpoints, Political View

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

- Arthur Jones

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Artist, Views, Political, Kink, Political View

At the start of the eighties, Tony and I [Tony Wakefield was one of the original members of DIJ] were involved in radical left politics and beneath it history students. In search of a political view for the future we came across National Bolshevism which is closely connected with the SA hierarchy. People like Gregor Strasser and Ernst RÃ¶hm who were later known as 'second revolutionaries' attracted our attention.

- Douglas Pearce

topic: Views, People, Political, Political View, Bolshevism

I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.

- Jay Roach

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Views, Political, Zealous, Political View

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

- David Mamet

source: "David Mamet: Hollywood Conservatives "Legitimately Frightened For Their Jobs"". Interview with Megyn Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 11, 2013.

topic: Believe, Thinking, Government, Warp, Political View

Different political views, even if they're all liberal, in the sense of supporting liberal constitutional democracy, undoubtedly have some notion of the common good in the form of the means provided to assure that people can make use of their liberties, and the like.

- John Rawls

source: John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.622, Harvard University Press

topic: Mean, Views, People, Political View

I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.

- Tom Morello

topic: Views, Government, Political, Political View, Government Spying

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

- Alexander McCall Smith

topic: Thinking, Views, Political, Political View

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.