Political Weapon Quotes

Truth is a very powerful political weapon against those who are trying to conceal it.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.

In 1920, at the height of one of the "Red scares," the New York State legislature voted to unseat five legally elected Socialist assemblymen:] The ballot is the legitimate weapon of the Socialists just as it is of the general public.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree to scare people away from standing up for their rights, no matter how good the deal. I'm not going to be part of that.

I see nothing in the mode of proceeding by impeachment but the most formidable weapon for the purpose of dominant faction that was ever contrived. It would be the most effectual one of getting rid of any man whom they may consider as dangerous to their views.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies decided by the E.U. and keep them on a leash.

As a political weapon, it has helped me for 30 years defend the rights of American blacks and third-world people all over the world, to defend them with protest songs. To move the audience to make them conscious of what has been done to my people around the world.

As a major political weapon, however, complex fabrication has developed organically among the Arabs in the two generations of the struggle for Palestine …. it is a well-known part of the character of Arab fantasy that the inventor of a story comes to believe it himself.

There is something wrong with using faith - belief without evidence - as a political weapon. I wouldn't say there is something similar about using science. Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

Do you people not care about this bogus government shutdown garbage? Back in 2013 Rob Portman, the senator from Ohio, Republican, suggested the End Government Shutdowns Act. So the End Government Shutdowns Act introduced by Senator Portman, the bill, you know what this would have done? Well, the Democrats shot it down. The Democrats don't want to get rid of the weapon they have by threatening a government shutdown and knowing the Republicans are gonna get blamed for it.

A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

As Donald Trump's fortunes continue to slide, he's increasingly dragging the fortunes of senate republican's weapon.

Information that is gathered and managed in secret is a potent weapon – and the temptation to use it in political combat … can be irresistible.

People think that Celera's trying to patent the whole human genome because it's been used as - I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one.