I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.
— Walter Cronkite
Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
— Walt Handelsman
In the history of postwar German writing, for the first 15 or 20 years, people avoided mentioning political persecution - the incarceration and systematic extermination of whole peoples and groups in society. Then, from 1965, this became a preoccupation of writers - not always in an acceptable form.
— W. G. Sebald
Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation.
— Vladimir Putin
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
— Vladimir Lenin
The Internet's abundance - of information, goods, tastes and sources of authority - creates unparalleled opportunities for individuals to get exactly what they want. But this plenitude threatens political and cultural authorities who believe in telling individuals what they can have rather than letting them choose for themselves.
— Virginia Postrel
What we have are - some of the big political donors behind the super PACs are big on promoting more of these trade agreements which cost us jobs - another reason that we need to end political action committees and have only individual donations with their donations being disclosed completely with names and addresses and other information.
— Virgil Goode
It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
— Vincent Bugliosi
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
I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.
— Viktor Orban
I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.
It didn't even occur to me that I could use my strong image in cinema to propagate my political ideas. To me, cinema was cinema and politics was politics.
— Vijayashanti
We all observe political leaders and scams. People are affected because of political apathy. We all get frustrated because of what we witness. 'NOTA' was a platform to vent my frustration.
— Vijay Deverakonda
Anyone who's tuned in to the House of Commons TV coverage knows the benches are often empty. I like that. I'm a big fan of political transparency. It's good for us to know which debates the MPs consider important enough to show up for, and which not.
— Victoria Coren Mitchell
The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.
— Vic Mensa
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
— Walter Bagehot
The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
— Wale
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.
The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.
The people are not defending political interests. They are defending the idea of living in a civilized country.
— Vitali Klitschko
In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.
You shouldn't have political action committees.
It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
— Vince Flynn
Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
I will be extremely happy if people start questioning political parties when they make electoral alliances.
— Vijay
Everybody in the two Telugu states, especially the residents of Vijayawada, love both cinema and politics. And 'NOTA' is a cinema with a political subject.
I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
— Vicky Hartzler
Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
— Walter Annenberg
As much as some people like to put down 'political correctness,' if it wasn't for political correctness, I wouldn't be free right now.
— W. Kamau Bell
A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.
Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.
I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.
Pablo really felt the suffering of people and so became a political animal. But he wanted to bring down extradition because this was the only thing he feared, and it became his obsession, his crusade, his cross.
— Virginia Vallejo
Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president.
Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.
The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.
— Vik Muniz
I am not with any political party. I laugh at media reports of my entering politics.
Ed Miliband should be out and proud about his abstruse interests, his Master's in Economics, his political obsession, his prioritising of the mental over the physical.
I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.
— Vicente del Bosque
