Molly Ivins Quotes
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.Molly Ivins
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Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
Carly Fiorina -
I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.
Gavin Newsom -
Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
Adam Cohen -
If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
Valorie Curry -
I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
Larry the Cable Guy
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
Harri Holkeri -
I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
Gavin Newsom -
As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn't want my makeup to rub off.
Hannah Storm -
Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps. Basically, all the criteria do is tell the legislators that you can't draw a seat that helps yourself or a political party. That's really critical.
Dan Gelber -
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.
Nassau William Senior -
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.
Carly Fiorina -
I hate political correctness.
Dan Jenkins -
In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. They enlisted the military, economic, and political support of the communist world against Israel, and they turned a local, regional conflict into an international powder keg.
Yitzhak Shamir -
It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that.
Anand Giridharadas -
I used to be a party monster, very into Acid House, which I saw as my weekend reward for working hard all week.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.
Joe Haldeman
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I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.
Jesmyn Ward -
It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.
William Gilmore Simms -
When you're young, influences count.
Derek Walcott -
But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.
Karl Lehmann -
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
Molly Ivins