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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab
The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.
Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.
Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?
Any political historian can give innumerable examples of one percenters who have gone on to success, maybe even Bill Clinton himself?
You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we choose the wrong Republican.
Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.
I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.
It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.
Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.
Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.
What gets me is when celebrities aren't allowed to have an opinion on anything political. There's the whole 'Shut up and sing' thing.
In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.
Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.
Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.
The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist.
The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a part of.
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.
In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.
Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.
Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.
We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.
I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.
The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.