There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.
— T. D. Jakes
As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.
— T. Boone Pickens
Being unapologetic about my body, my sexuality, my life's decisions is a political belief that, as a feminist, I strongly espouse.
— Swara Bhaskar
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.
— Susie Orbach
If women don't participate in tech, with its massive prominence in our lives and society, we risk losing many of the economic, political, and social gains we have made over decades.
— Susan Wojcicki
It's not that I'm apolitical... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add.
— Susan Isaacs
My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.
— Susan Ford
A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.
— Susan Cheever
Yes, I have political aptitude and attitude too.
— Suresh Gopi
The government should train and direct the people in their acquisition of political knowledge and ability, thereby enabling them to exercise the powers of election, recall, initiative, and referendum.
— Sun Yat-sen
We must all build national unity, build all revolutionary forces, into one powerful wave to sweep away our main enemy, political imperialism and economic imperialism.
— Sukarno
It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those political persuasions who have such different ideologies but confess the same things I confess spiritually.
— Sufjan Stevens
For decades, the Congress party has used its power to make Nehru appear as a giant, rendering all other political personalities small before him.
— Subramanian Swamy
The BJP is only a front organisation. It is not a political party.
It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.
— Stormzy
Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.
— Stockwell Day
When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they're aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism.
And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.
I have things I watch in my downtime - I love 'Scandal.' I don't write political romance, so there's not a direct relation there. But it's something I do just to turn off the brain for a little bit, and just to relax and recharge.
— Sylvia Day
I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.
— Suzanne Vega
Political boundaries in their most physical terms can make or break an election. The manipulation of electoral districts can make them either 'blue-hot' or 'red-hot' depending on the level of intensity felt in either camp to such shifting ground.
— Susie Dent
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
— Susan Sontag
There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
— Susan George
The personal is political, but only to a point.
— Susan Estrich
We know that the environment and political information is important, and we expose and teach the women about some of the environmental factors that lead to their incarceration.
— Susan Burton
Sometimes Supreme Court justices surprise you with their decisions - you think they're going to vote one way, but they vote a different way, and I keep an open mind about that. But I think a moral compass is really important for a Supreme Court justice, as it is for any political appointee.
— Sunny Hostin
If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.
The New Order wants to implement democracy in economy. It is an order to achieve a social, political, economic, and cultural society with Pancasila and Belief in God Almighty as our moral values.
— Suharto
I will continue to work for people, but not from any political party. What I can do do as a Rajya Sabha member, I can do without being a member too, perhaps even more efficiently.
— Sudha Murty
The truth is truth. I have never made a charge in my political career of 30 years where I have been disapproved. No defamation case has succeeded against me.
Ahmed Patel and Sonia Gandhi are not too different political personalities.
Simply because I did not fit in their mold of what an independent working woman should be, the media and political elite have sought to relegate my sense of civic responsibility to mere sideshow antics.
— Stormy Daniels
It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.
Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not citizens.
I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
— T. C. Boyle
By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.
— Sydney Pollack
The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.
My husband is an opposition MP. Our political alliance may have fallen through, but our matrimonial alliance is intact.
— Sushma Swaraj
Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.
— Susan Rice
The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
Predictions of a disappearing political center are a warning of a bleak future that we can avoid only by adhering to our nation's founding principles.
— Susan Collins
See, my passion is films and I don't believe in political parties.
I think we sometimes forget that we have so many other places to create change. My dad taught me this, but the political is one spot to make change. But so is writing a book.
— Sunil Yapa
A political revolution must proceed simultaneously with the nationalist revolution. When we overthrow the Manchu regime, we will achieve not only a nationalist revolution against the Manchus but also a political revolution against monarchy. They are not to be carried out at two different times.
Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.
— Sugata Mitra
I don't want to be identified with any political party.
Madurai is a city with a long political history. It was at the centre of the anti-Brahmin movement, the anti-Hindi movement, the Dravidian movement, and was a pro-LTTE city. Yet, this city has elected me, the very antithesis of all these movements.
In political, strategic as well as economic and commercial areas, Singapore has become a fulcrum for India's policies east of India.
— Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
