Top 515 Politically Quotes

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

Well, I’ve been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

I’m not politically correct; I never said I was.

‘Easy Rider’ was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that’s the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all.

When things socially and politically get difficult, punk music suddenly comes back again, and there’s just a really healthy pivot away from music that’s not humanly understandable.

There are plenty of politically motivated pretenders out there preparing to punk you, and you better be on your toes.

I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagree with politically but love them anyway.

We have seen a degradation from the highest levels of authority politically in this nation, including through the department of justice, for the rule of law.

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone’s enemies – sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

I mean Georgia, and also Belfast, aren’t the most stable places, politically, in the world. But the thing is, in both places, the people were just so kind and so warm and in Belfast so welcoming.

No one but John Oliver is going to be able to figure out the code of making a 20-minute monologue on futures, securities, and currency speculation interesting, funny, and poignant politically.

Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He’s safe. There’s points when you’re acquiring financing, you make adjustments. He’s made those adjustments. It’s his choice. For me, it’s not a necessity.

They tell me I’m on ‘Politically Incorrect’ with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.

Occasionally, Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true.

Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run. You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn’t live perfect lives could never run.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It’s a tension we all go through.

It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.

Those early Cyborg comics were very politically charged, and he was very aware of being a black superhero.

Politically at that time, with Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the White House, it wasn’t looking too great for the Left. And we were always on the left.

In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

I have become politically correct now. I have curbed my enthusiasm. I am in my mid-40s, so it doesn’t make sense to talk brashly like a 20-year-old.

I don’t try to be politically correct.

Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.

I didn’t vote, exactly. This is the first time I’ve been politically inclined and active, and I think Donald Trump is a tremendous president. And I wanted to be educated. I wanted to do a deep dive before I started going out there and saying stuff as opposed to other people who mindlessly vote.

I don’t think I’m severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it’s bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.

I think people are tired of politics as usual. We’re tired of everything being scripted; we’re tired of every comment being politically correct.

We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

I don’t think people are going to switch over to bikes because it’s good for them or because it’s politically correct. They’re going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

I really started getting more politically involved after the 2016 election, watching how partisan and how angry our political conversations became.

The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

I was just oblivious to the fact that the country scene was socially backward and politically opposite of everything I am.

Our supporters can send the message that it’s wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day’s work are being cheated out of an honest day’s pay.

When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

I’m a hate figure for a certain kind of half-educated politically correct person.

The fact is that the rich are getting richer while the poor are being left behind. Women remain under-represented in boardrooms and under-engaged in the global workforce. Environmental change is leaving the poorest countries vulnerable. Voters are becoming more and more politically polarised and partisan.

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.

Don’t allow politically connected folks to get their particular tax breaks.

I am politically incorrect, that’s true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won’t be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn’t going to love you all the time.

Politically speaking, it’s always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.

I am not a fan of Mitt Romney, but I admit that he is, politically speaking, a good candidate for president. He has no personal baggage. He’s as handsome as they come. And he’s a talented orator.

To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.

I grew up in a politically aware household: very civically-minded, good Minnesota liberals.

Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.

It’s not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don’t recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

We now live in a very polarized nation, divided not between Republicans and Democrats but between those who want to defend our liberties and those who want to defend politically correct stupidities.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they’ve been politically repressive.

In the beginning of Audioslave, I was very honest. I said, ‘We make great albums and write great albums – but don’t be under the impression I’m going to be a lyricist that writes anything other than what strikes me as inspiring in the moment.’ The lyrics weren’t going to be focused politically.