Quotes about Political Body

Henry VIII

We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so high in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, when we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together in one body politic.

At the time there was no concept of serious separation of powers. For all practical purposes, the King ruled and he shared some of his powers with the Parliament. The next centuries in England would see the great battle for governmental power between the monarch and the Parliament. Today, the British monarch has no power but still retains a great deal of influence in England but largely because Queen Elisabeth is so well loved and respected.

George Berkeley

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

Adrienne Rich

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

Max Baucus

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

Robert Caro

The Senate is an unknowing world.

Indya Moore

My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don't speak.

Henry Adams

Nothing [is] more uncertain than the moral sensitivities of a political body.

David Shields

Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.

Sam Brownback

In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived ideological balance when Democrat presidents have appointed people to the court.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

John Adams

The representative assembly (House of Representatives) ... should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason, and act like them

Theodore E. Burton

The Republican Party advocates membership in the Permanent Court of International Justice. Unlike the League, this is not a political but a judicial body.

Ironically, by the 21st century, the Republican Party had moved so far to the right that it rejected the earlier Republican position on the International Courts and opposed American participation. Many Republicans of that era are amazed that Republicans endorsed American participation in an International Court ever.

Andrew Jackson

From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.

Robert J. Kaiser

In the “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body” [the U. S. Senate] there is little deliberation … Floor debates consisted primarily of political posturing.

The Congress at that time was mired down in hyperpartisanship and accomplished very little.

Wallace Stegner

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

Marat Safin

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

Mark Pryor

Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

Political Body Quotes