Susan Davis (Susan Carol Alpert Davis) Quotes
When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice President Joe Biden, specifically, and senior political appointees broadly.
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
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Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
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There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.
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I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.
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You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
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I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.
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Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal – or have stolen for you - what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.
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If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.
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State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
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Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
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What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
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We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
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When a New York attorney general brings a lawsuit against a prominent business person, there are two things you can count on out of that office - lots of political bluster and little accountability.
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I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.
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All actresses, including me, want to look great on screen.
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I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.
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An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice President Joe Biden, specifically, and senior political appointees broadly.
