Political Quotes
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One thing about D.C. that's funny to me is that you end up running into famous political figures who you've seen on television who you think are not real until you see them.
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I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.
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Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the risk of default. ... The idea that politicians can assess risks better than people who have spent their whole careers assessing risks should have been so obviously absurd that no one would take it seriously.
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The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
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Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy.
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I realize there are a lot of folks in my political party who disagree with me on this, but I think the Patriot Act is an important law enforcement tool, and it makes our country safer.
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In Shahjahanpur, there was not much of a political fight. It was my family constituency and I knew all the voters and their problems and needs.
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Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.
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The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
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I think what is important, whether you are Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, is to embrace and own your identity. I think that's not political. That's good in life, and it certainly is the best way to be when you are running for office. If you don't do that, the voters will see through it.
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I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don't have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I'm one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that.
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If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.
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About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.
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One of the top political issues of the day is how to combat young people not being active anymore.
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We refugees, we become always a punchbag. A political punchbag between China and South Korea and North Korea.
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I've got a certain derring-do about me. I'm an explorer for the truth in a jungle of political overgrowth.
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Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him. In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of state repression makes a mockery of the rule of law.
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He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.
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That means temporary borrowings. People have to understand that because there's going to be the usual political shit storm, sorry, political storm.
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Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.
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The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country.
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Partial answers on the questions: 'And what did you mean when you said you would come back? Would you lobby Congress? Maybe explore the political arena again?'
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I've always had a fascination with the technical and small-scale aspects of life - the national media seem to have more interest in the sweeping political views.
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The Framers of the Constitution wisely understood that constitutional principles must not be sacrificed on the altar of political appeasement.
