Political Quotes
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When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.
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Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.
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In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
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And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.
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Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.
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The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.
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On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.
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The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect - plainly predicted in economic theory - that trade would harm some people even while leaving society as a whole better off. The result was overpromised benefits and inadequate adjustment plans.
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We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?
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If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.
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My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
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The problem is that there is no reliable source of information left, no way to accumulate trusted accounts of the plusses and minuses of any given political choice.
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The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. It overpowers whoever touches it. By merely doodling a Toothbrush mustache on a poster, you make a political statement.
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Government endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.
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That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.
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A political consultant, when we first started thinking about Senate race, said, "You can have one funny name. You can be 'Barack Smith.' Or you can be 'Joe Obama.' But 'Barack Obama' - that's not gonna work."
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We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.
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Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!
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You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.
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The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.
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Political elections are not life and death.
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We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.
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In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.
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I think it's very important to feel beautiful. I think it's very political to feel beautiful, especially if you're Queer, because if you're Queer you have to take on the world every single day of your life, so you have to feel beautiful to survive.
