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The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.
We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.
A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.
Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.
Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.
I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive.
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?
Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.
A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.
Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.
There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.
I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.
I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.
Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.
Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious - I'm gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well.
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.
Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.
The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.
Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.
Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.
Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"
It's time for somebody to lead all of America's niggers . . all the people who feel left out of the political process.
It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.
This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.