I deeply admire the American Presidency as a political and constitutional institution. I believe it is, one of the great, and remarkable innovations in our Constitution, and has been one of the most successful features of the Constitution in protecting the liberties of the American people.
— William Barr
As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?
— William A. Dembski
There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political.
— Will Wright
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
— Will Rogers
The Iraqi National Guard needs to become a reality in order to give hope to the Sunni population, and Sunni leaders that have been the focus of political prosecution should be included in the discussions of Iraq's political future.
— Will Hurd
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
— Will Durant
I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.
— Wilfrid Laurier
Barring some national security concern, I see no valid reason to keep peer-reviewed research from the public. To be clear, by 'peer review,' I mean scientific review and not a political filter.
— Wilbur Ross
The immigration laws of the United States should not be used to buy and sell political favors.
— Wendy Long
Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
— Wendy Davis
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.
— Wen Jiabao
Holder's Justice Department is not the shield of justice, it has become the shield for Obama's political transgressions.
— Wayne LaPierre
People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
— Warren Giles
I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.
— Warren Buffett
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
— Walter Lippmann
I earned my spurs in the civil rights movement. All my life, not for political but for religious reasons, moral reasons, that's where I've been, and I'm proud of it, and I'll always be there.
— Walter F. Mondale
I mean, republics have fallen because of Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own political preferences and they feel that anyone who has a different opinion, you know, is somehow an enemy of the state.
Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.
That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.
— Will Self
I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas.
— will.i.am
Fomenting an ongoing political crisis is actually one of ISIS's objectives; it distracts policymakers' attention from terrorists inside Iraq; and it draws critical Iraqi security forces and law enforcement away from the front lines of the battle against ISIS.
I would love to do a political drama. I'm a 'West Wing' fanatic.
— Will Chase
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
— Whittaker Chambers
Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
— Wendell Willkie
Any public official - regardless of political party - who fails to recognize the problem with devaluing subsections of your constituency is unfit to serve and must step aside.
— Wayne Messam
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
Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
— Warren Farrell
If I'm talking about something current, a current issue or something political, it's because I was able to read it when I was on the plane getting to the gig... a lot of it happens when I'm on the road because when I'm home, you're just mom, and that's it.
— Wanda Sykes
Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!
— Walter Kirn
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.
— Walter Dean Myers
The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?
Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?
Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.
Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?
Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.
— Will Ferrell
Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
— Wilfred Burchett
I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.
— Werner Herzog
School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
— Wendy Kopp
Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
For Obama, 'rule of law' is merely his political silly-putty.
Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.
— Warren Rudman
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
