Political Quotes
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The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the elites call the shots. Inside accounts reveal the extent to which Johnson and Nixon's conduct of the Vietnam War was constrained by the huge anti-war movement. It was the civil rights movement, not compelling arguments, that convinced members of Congress to end legal racial discrimination.
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I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.
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Political courage requires clarity.
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Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.
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Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.
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I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.
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It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.
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Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture.
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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.
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Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.
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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.
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I think I've earned a reputation of being fair and that I'll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum.
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I don't make political statements; let's all have a laugh. Let's all live and be free. I try and live to the letter of the law, but right on the edge of it.
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I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.
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Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land - American Indians - and the political owner of the land - American Whites. Guilt and accusations cannot continue to revolve in a vacuum without some effort at reaching a solution.
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Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
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Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
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Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.
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The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.
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The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.
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I think if you look at the realm we're discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to find an action by any politician intended to specifically favor either my firm or myself.
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I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.
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The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.
