Political Quotes
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Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.
David Paden Marchand
AFI
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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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Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.
James Surowiecki
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Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.
Patti Smith
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Yet the Fascist State is unique, and an original creation. It is not reactionary, but revolutionary, in that it anticipates the solution of the universal political problems which elsewhere have to be settled in the political field by the rivalry of parties, the excessive power of the Parliamentary regime and the irresponsibility of political assemblies.
Benito Mussolini
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At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.
Charlize Theron
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There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.
Gerald Stern
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Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story, meaning it's Us and Them, instead of what it is: this profound challenge we face given our energy norms right now, the fuels of convenience toward something new. No matter what the politics are, it's still an enormous transformation that has to take place.
Andrew Revkin
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Vision is not political rhetoric.
Jean Chretien
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Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'
Wendy McElroy
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For the most part, congressional Republicans represent people who are whiter, older and richer than most Americans, and our creaky old political system gives those Americans disproportionate influence over public policy.
Alex Pareene
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The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.
Alex Pareene
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Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.
Elliott Abrams
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'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.
Bonnie Hammer
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Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
Joan Kirner
