Political Quotes
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I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.
Ayad Akhtar
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This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.
Jesse Helms
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I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
Bjork
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I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.
John Edgar Wideman
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From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.
August Wilson
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Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
Christian Lous Lange
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I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.
Bret Stephens
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I think a lot of concern of the people in the north is that one hears constant reports in talking to them is about militarisation and the presence of the army, the entry of the army into civic life, into the economy, the lack of a political settlement.
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
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What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years.
David Miliband
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People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
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It was an example of the terrible innocence of men who are superb in their own fields. Einstein had some grotesque political opinions. Jack Parr knew how we should get rid of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Vonnegut keeps losing airplane tickets.
John D. MacDonald
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Donald Trump has stunned the political world by building an unlikely coalition that crosses all demographic boundaries of age, sex, race, religion and social classes, and all party lines.
Jerry Falwell, Jr.
