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It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.
I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.
You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.
Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.
I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.
That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.
The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.
All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.
What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.
Gay Marriage isn't Special Rights, it's Equal Rights. 'Special Rights' are for political churches that don't pay taxes.
I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values.
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.
I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.
Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.
I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.
All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
Every political card played by Jeb Bush has been Trumped; every political note played by The Donald has been Trumpeted.
The negatives were [Adolf Hitler] political philosophies, but neither Eva [Braun] or I knew anything that was going on.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.
At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.
Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.
Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying.
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.
The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.