Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
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I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.
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Culture is more important than politics and government.
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Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.
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With Kevin Drew, as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
