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Political View Quotes

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
- Margaret Atwood

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
- Kevin Bacon

We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.
- Ed Balls

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
- Howard Barker

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.
- Gavyn Davies

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.
- John Turner

I have had many Ashfield people say to me that they might not agree with my political views or my decisions but that they supported my right to be heard.
- Geoff Hoon

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.
- David Horowitz

This is not an age favourable to the development of artistic genius; it may be that for a time all forms of art will pass away into the domination of those who think that a good picture can be painted only if the artist's political views record with theirs, and that it is only possible to write a good novel provided the author follows the rules they have laid down.
- Elizabeth Jenkins

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
- Elena Kagan

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
- Carl Karcher

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
- Hans Kung

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.
- Mike Lee

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
- Iris Murdoch

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
- Ted Nugent

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
- Manuel Puig

If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks.
- Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.
- Fritz Sauckel

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
- Lamar S Smith

Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
- J Lee Thompson

It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.
- Mac Thornberry

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
- Elie Wiesel

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
- Edith Wharton

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