George Will Quotes
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
George Will
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Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
Barry Eichengreen
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Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
Fidel Castro
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
Caleb Cushing
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
A. Philip Randolph
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
E. B. White
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
Camryn Manheim
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Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?
Warren Christopher
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
Adam Driver
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Rachel Kushner
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Walter Bagehot
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When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I hate political correctness.
Dan Jenkins
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I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
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It's a rare pro-lifer who is against the death penalty, who's against all war, who favors, you know, all the things people need to flourish and stay healthy in life. They've tied themselves to the Republican Party, which doesn't support any of that.
Katha Pollitt
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When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they're aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I don't know if you noticed, but our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking in the mirror at itself.
Lewis Black
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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Desiderius Erasmus
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I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.
Opal Tometi
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
Eamonn Walker
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But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
C.J. Sansom
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What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Ralph Norman
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There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.
Zebulon Pike
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Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
George Will
