Political Quotes
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In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.
Elliott Abrams
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Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind.
Whittaker Chambers
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I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.
Nana Mouskouri
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'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels.
Charles Kennedy
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It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
John George Nicolay
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I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of great good.
Cleve Jones
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The rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
Hannah Arendt
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
William Beveridge
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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Ending gun violence isn't political. This is personal.
Joe Kennedy III
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Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.
Charles E. Merrill
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Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
James L. Buckley
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The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
Paul Keating
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Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
Gaylord Nelson
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In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.
Andrew O'Hagan
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Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.
John C. Maxwell
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My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.
Barack Obama
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The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it ultimately deems necessary, including military, remains an article of faith among the people who guide both political parties.
Gabriel Kolko
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
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No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.
Nelson A. Miles
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I majored in political science and speech communication.
Marne Levine
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A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
Mark Russell