Political Quotes
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Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there's a weird tendency to assume that the whole existence is determined minute by minute by the political reality, but of course, that's not the case for any of us.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Activists need to educate themselves about the power of crypto currencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the success of their independent media gains to tip the balance of power away from the troika in ways that could never happen by backing a political candidate.
Max Keiser
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When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity?
Brian Baird
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There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politiriscs.
Walter Wriston
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There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot.
Mark McKinnon
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
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I didn't want to get into a political debate with him, but my patience was running thin...My shorts were getting a little tight.
Arlen Specter
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I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.
Cass McCombs
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Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
Andrew Cuomo
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Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question.
Tariq Ali
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Lawmakers imagine they can be political heroes by voting for budgets that slash scientific research by 20 percent, but they inhibit our ability to respond to health crises.
Bill Foster
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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.
Javier Bardem
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Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.
William Henry Chamberlin
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When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.
Alexander Siddig
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Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas.
Elliott Abrams
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Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that.
Jennifer Palmieri
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All I am saying is I will be a senator - should there be any special circumstance where the political forces would believe that there might be a need for my service, I would consider it.
Mario Monti
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I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
George P. Shultz
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We never had intentions to become a political band but like it or not we have been placed on a unique political platform in the past months. We feel it would be irresponsible not to make something positive come out of that.
Natalie Maines
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I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
Joschka Fischer
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It is the tendency of all creeds, opinions, and political dogmas that have once defined themselves in institutions to become inoperative.
James Russell Lowell
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Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.
Abi Morgan
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Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.
Bella Abzug