Political Silence Quotes

The great silent majority.

Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes.

Taylor won votes in both the free and slave states by reason of his persistent and obstinate silence and reserve on the vexed question of slavery.

From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents might be taken to prison. All Estonian families have these kind of stories.

I'm a loyal Republican. I support the President [Ronald Reagan] when he's right—and I just keep quiet the other ninety-five percent of the time.

Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump's latest racism are telling you who they really are.

For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

I'm not politically vocal. I just want what's best for our country. I want our rights respected and those of my son's.

I'm pretty much done with political commentary. I've said everything I could possibly say. I've been a big mouth for long enough.

I'm almost totally politically inactive.

I have learned when two Republicans are talking about legalizing drugs to shut up.

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.

The Election Commission stopped me from campaigning. I accepted it and reached people through my prayer - in silence. People gave their approval. Praying in silence is important, and this spiritual prayer has paid off.

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.

For too many years, those eligible to vote in primary or general elections did not bother to do so. Those sensible centrists who do not go to rallies but care deeply about our country effectively silenced their own voices. That sent the message to incumbents that they were either doing the right thing or that we just did not care.

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

In light of Jeb Bush's recent fumbles on Iraq , maybe the Clinton campaign is making the smart move here by not saying.

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending.

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

Barack Obama says he's gonna stay in Washington, but presidents don't stay in Washington. Presidents, they get out of there as fast as they can, 'cause it's like a prison to them. And Michelle Obama's even said as much about the White House. So the fact that he's gonna stay there has always told me that he's gonna stay there to protect his legacy, whatever it is, and that he's not gonna observe the age-old protocols of standing aside and staying silent for awhile while the new president takes office.

I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night.