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The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything
The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.
The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.
We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.
I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it.
Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.
The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.
In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.
The case to be made is that we have got to get people involved - continue to get people involved in the political process at every level.
Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never even apply.
Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.
I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.
Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness.
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.
I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.
Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America.
People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.