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Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.
I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.
If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven.
If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.'
I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.
When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.
I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.
Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.
The media do not set their own investigative agendas independently, but operate as part ... of the political establishment.
Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.
I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.
We will allow private and religious groups to compete to provide services in every federal, state and local social program.
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.
Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
You know, if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to you, report it.
Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.
I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
My Worst Political Move of the 2015 Year. John Boehner inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to address the joint session of Congress.
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.
Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.
This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.
The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.
It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable.
I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.
I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'
After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.
There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.
The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.
My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.
Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.
Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.
I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.
Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.