Political Quotes
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
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In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
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I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.
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Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
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I, too, believe there are natural rights that predate any written political or legal documents; we have these rights merely because we're children of God.
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Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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Only when you don't impose things on it do you get real political theatre.
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But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.
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Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.
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To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.
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We do have every interest in maintaining the friendliest possible relations with Mexicans from all legitimate political walks of life.
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Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
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And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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The truth is made worse by the reality that no one-really no one-anywhere on the political spectrum has the courage to speak out about the madness of unleashed guns and what they do to American life.
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Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
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Money is the root cause of why our political system is broken and why Americans are so frustrated.
