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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.
At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!
The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.
I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.
I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.
If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.
The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.
Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.
We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.
Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.
I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.
In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.
The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.
So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge].
The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another.
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.
I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.
Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.
I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
I think that Rahm Emanuel`s political career is going to be very difficult to revive after the mismanagement.
Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.
There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
I don't see how we can allow public dollars to fund programs where spite and hate is the core of the message.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.
The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.
Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.
I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.