The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.
— Simon Schama
I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.
— Simon Cowell
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
— Siegfried Sassoon
On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
— Sidney Blumenthal
I have shot for a political satire by Anubhav Sinha called 'Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai.'
— Shriya Pilgaonkar
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
— Shirley Chisholm
Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.
— Shirin Ebadi
I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.
— Shervin Pishevar
Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.
— Shepard Fairey
The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change.
— Sheldon Whitehouse
Too many members of Congress seem willing to give corporate polluters, many of whom happen to be major political donors, a free pass to poison the air.
When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads.
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.
— Shawn Amos
As you may know, I'm the co-founder of a political organization called Real Justice. Our goal is to help elect progressive, reform-minded prosecutors and district attorneys that are committed to ending mass incarceration.
— Shaun King
I'm not a professional political analyst, so my political analysis is worth about what you pay for it.
— Sharyl Attkisson
And this may be hard to swallow for those deeply embedded in a particular political philosophy, but I think most people - whatever their choices - simply want what's best for themselves, their families and their country. They differ on what that means and the best way to get there.
Ever since his inauguration, President Trump's political opponents have been pushing to impeach him. They just hadn't found the right excuse. In other words, they knew where they wanted to end up but they just hadn't found the right vehicle to drive them down the road.
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism.
— Simon Mainwaring
The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.
— Silvio Berlusconi
To begin to know the philosophy of socialism, in backward countries where the class differences are great, very great, and terribly exaggerated over the conditions we know in this country, to overcome this, the theory of revolution, of force and violence, was necessary within those political conditions. It couldn't be anything else.
— Sidney Buchman
Mary Lasker was an entrepreneur; she was a socialite. She was kind of a legendary networker. She became interested in saying, 'Well, you know, if these diseases don't have political support we'll never conquer them.' And she made, really, cancer her special cause.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.
— Shirin Neshat
The signing of the Israel-PLO accord is more than a political milestone. It is a transformative event which touches every Jewish family - physically, emotionally, spiritually.
— Shimon Peres
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
— Sherman Alexie
The extent of my political involvement is that I'm a registered voter - Republican.
— Shelly Burch
The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.
Despite heated political debates on the future of our health care system, there is bipartisan agreement that health IT can be a powerful tool to transform and modernize the delivery of health care in our country. Health IT is about helping patients and their loved ones.
I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.
— Shekhar Kapur
'Go vote' is a not a political strategy. It's hardly a slogan. Hell, it's not even a good tweet.
When you are a coordinated partner, you are, in effect, on the campaign staff. You can talk to the whole staff and have virtually no limits on what you can discuss and strategize around. When you are an independent friend of the campaign, you are not allowed to strategize with the campaign on their political decisions.
When analysis and opinion are invited, various viewpoints should be represented. Allegations of political blame, when they occur, should be reasonably challenged on all sides, as good journalism requires.
I think very few of us have a thick bold line on every given topic that falls neatly into the box of a chosen political party or figure.
Following sporadic reports of intelligence officials misleading Congress about surveilling U.S. citizens - even spying on journalists and political figures and their staffs - there was a series of red flags in 2016 and 2017 that should have drawn attention and action.
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.
— Simon Hoggart
However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.
— Sigmar Gabriel
We in America were worried about many problems dealing with economic inequality and political inequality. The Communist Party seemed to be the only political force, both concerned and willing, to take action to stop the threat of fascism abroad and to work for economic and political reform in this country.
I have been a part of four different genres - a political satire, gangster drama, thriller and period drama.
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.
Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.
I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?
— Sheryl Sandberg
It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.
— Sheri Fink
The fossil fuel industry maintains a science denial operation and a political influence operation designed to do just that. What's good for their business is more important to them than what's good for America.
No one has a First Amendment right to lie to a federal agency in order to claim an improper tax status in order to avoid legal disclosure requirements on political spending and thereby receive undue tax benefits. That's a criminal false statement and possibly a fraud.
Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that.
The political parties who prefer lockdowns should end their politics that is based on negative attitude.
— Shehbaz Sharif
Because of tax laws governing charities, including almost every single civil rights organization you've ever heard of, including the NAACP, the Urban League, the ACLU, and others, those organizations are not allowed to endorse political candidates or use their resources in political campaigns of any kind.
India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.
— Shashi Tharoor
Even amid the heated political rhetoric that dominates the news media and social media, resurrected false claims about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., stand out as egregious.
Each political party in America contains people with a hodgepodge of beliefs. Their given positions on a topic may shift slightly - or drastically - from year to year or day to day.
