Political Quotes
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In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.
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I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.
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My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education.
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!
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Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
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The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
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All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information. (p. 178-179)
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I liked the push and pull of that, between the outer political world and the inner personal lives of the characters. It's also real life... Many of us are keenly aware of world events, but break your nose and I bet that's the main thing you'd be focused on.
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In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.
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Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.
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The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.
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The distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
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I mean, putting women in the center of a movie and not talking about men, that's already political, right? And you know, political doesn't mean that it sends this message or that is has a statement. It's also political in its aesthetic project.
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In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.
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There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things happen, they almost seem to happen on a Shakespearian stage with the audience so close they can become actors too. This is partly what Joseph Brodsky meant when he wrote that small countries have big politics.
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A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
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In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion.
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Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves.
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The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.
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One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
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ABC forbids political activity by journalists.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
