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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
We think we can't survive without deficit spending - but we soon won't be able to survive with deficit spending, either.
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.
The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.
The capacity of Iraq's security forces has improved, and Iraq's leaders have made strides toward political accommodation
The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.
Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff, you get people going, "I didn't come here to have my political views bashed."
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.
The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.
I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.
I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.
Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.
As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.
Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.
The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.
The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand
It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.
But of course in my world nothing is political. And everything's about policy and governance. And maybe a bit of politics.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.