The term political statement is used to refer to any act or non-verbal form of communication that is intended to influence a decision to be made for or by a political party
A political statement can vary from a
mass demonstration
A political demonstration is an action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause or people partaking in a protest against a cause of concern; it often consists of walking in a mass march format ...
to the wearing of a badge with a
political slogan. It was a term popularised in the 1960s but still has some currency.
The term has also been used to describe negotiated statements such as the Seville Statement on Violence or the
Waldorf Statement
The Waldorf Statement was a two-page press release issued on 24 November 1947, by Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, following a closed-door meeting by forty-eight motion picture company executives at New York ...
, or
extempore
''Ex tempore'' ( Latin for "out of the moment“) is a legal term that means 'at the time'. A judge who hands down a decision in a case soon or straight after hearing it is delivering a decision ''ex tempore''. Another way a judge may deliver a d ...
utterances with political implications
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