Conservatism as a formal political doctrine didn't exist in America in 1940. The word 'conservative' was associated primarily with fringe groups - anti-industrial Southern agrarians and the anti-New Deal tycoons who led the Liberty League.
— Tom Reiss
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
— Tom Lehrer
My love of Green Day is on so many levels. It's their genius for songwriting, the fact that they write about very important subjects, both personal and political, and they're just a timeless band.
— Tom Kitt
I think all comedy has victims, really. Even if it's not a victim that appears on camera, usually there's a victim. If it's political comedy, if you're talking about the president or whoever, there's a victim there.
— Tom Green
At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.
— Tom Cotton
John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.
— Tom Brokaw
Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage.
I guess the issue that I have with all the news organizations that have a political MO, if you will, attached to them is that they sometimes jump to conclusions about what this will mean. Get ahead of themselves.
We can score political points. We can try to advance some important initiatives. But at some point, it takes sober-minded, responsible conservative leaders to identify when you've pushed as far as you can and to have the courage to go back and face the electorate and explain to them why you voted the way you did.
— Todd Young
I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.
— Todd Tiahrt
Our democracy depends on a free and independent press. When politicians call reporting they don't like 'fake news,' they undermine trust in our civic organizations for their own political gain.
— Tina Smith
Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.
— Tina Brown
Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse.
Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
— Timothy Noah
Brittle masculinity, in the right setting, becomes political atrocity. Strength brings problems; weakness brings others, but weakness posing as strength is the most dangerous of all.
— Timothy D. Snyder
It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.
— Tim Pawlenty
People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.
— Tim Kaine
All of my political career, I've fought for the taxpayers.
— Tom Price
I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks or individuals who have problems. But I meet with everybody and listen.
— Tom Latham
Actors with political views are a dime a dozen.
— Tom Hanks
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
— Tom G. Palmer
Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.
— Tom Colicchio
Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'
My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right.
What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.
Most Hoosiers aren't really political people.
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.
— Toby Young
We need to prioritize ending the influence of corporate special interests and secret money on politicians by limiting the amount of money they can spend on political campaigns.
Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up din before the aria. Perhaps his body temperature is so low, it sometimes takes him too long to break out the song.
Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box.
— Timothy Simons
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.
— Tim Wise
Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political history - or, for that matter, distant political history.
— Tim Minchin
I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.
— Tim Heidecker
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.
— Tom Lantos
I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.
College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.
— Tom Ford
The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.
— Tom Clancy
Gerald Ford brought to the political arena no demons, no hidden agenda, no hit list or acts of vengeance. He knew who he was, and he didn't require consultants or gurus to change him.
I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long as it's transparent. We know where Breitbart stands, we know where Fox stands, where MSNBC stands. So, people go in with an understanding of that.
I don't want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody's political beliefs. I've never done that. I've never tried to get involved in those things.
— Tom Brady
The United States Senate is already chock full of career politicians and insiders who fall in line for political expediency and refuse to stand up and speak out for the American people.
— Todd Wilcox
People of all political persuasions - conservatives, moderates, and liberals alike - need to dedicate themselves once again to preserving the moral foundation of our society.
— Tipper Gore
I went to college and majored in political science.
What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity.
We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story.
I think the research evidence on the benefits of early childhood programs for the local economy is extremely strong. However, the moral and political choice is still up to us, as citizens and as voters.
— Timothy J. Bartik
I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.
— Tim Robbins
If I was asked to do a film that was just trying to sell a political point of view or religious point of view, I wouldn't do that because that's a bad script.
— Tim Matheson
