Political Quotes
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...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity.
John Redwood
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I object very much when my work is said to not be political, because my feelings about the social system are in there somewhere. The idea is to have it all in there together-you can’t pull it out.
Donald Judd
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I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.
Nelson Rockefeller
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Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.
Jenna Wortham
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To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can use to attract attention, attract voters. And get influence in our society.
Alexander Stille
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Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.
Deborah Eisenberg
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Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.
Carolyn Chute
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In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
Bernie Sanders
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Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.
Alison Jackson
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The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.
William Cowper Brann
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Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
Jeb Bush
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If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.
Edward S. Herman
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With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do.
Luis Alberto Urrea
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I think it's dangerous to prosecute people for their political views and their political associations. I think you prosecute people for what they do, for their acts.
Keith Ellison
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In my platoon, we came from different parts of the country, with different backgrounds, different religious beliefs, different political beliefs—and yet we all put those differences aside. Fundamentally, I believe that’s what the American people expect of Congress as well. We all ought to be able to come together in Washington and do what’s best for our America.
Seth Moulton
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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.
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The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern