Political Culture Quotes

• This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Party, Political

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Reading

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• The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

  Norman Podhoretz

  Dirty, Political, Secret

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• It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people's lives.

  Allen W. Wood

  Depressing, Xenophobia, Persistence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Moving, People, Interesting

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• We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Leadership, Achievement, Political

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• State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in which a political culture of hyper-punitiveness has become normalized. Revealing itself in a blatant display of unbridled arrogance and power, it is unchecked by any sense of either conscience or morality.

  Henry Giroux

  Political, Arrogance, Culture

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Political, Culture

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• I am who I am. In politics when you treat people well and they know you're honest, straight and sincere, I think it's an advantage. Just because somebody comes from a hard-boiled political culture doesn't make him a good U.S. senator.

  Joe Kyrillos

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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• The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

  Richard Lamm

  Political, President, Needs

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• The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing the vast and unchecked powers that are typically vested in leaders in the name of war. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.

  Glenn Greenwald

  War, Years, Names

  "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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• The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

  Aaron Wildavsky

  Political, Culture, Study

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• But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Political, Culture, Campaigns

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• Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Political, Understanding, Culture

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other since prep school. This makes it gossipy and often incestuous.

  David Brooks

  Blessed, School, People

  "Britain Is Working". www.nytimes.com. May 23, 2011.

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• One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average response on the part of Americans today is about 100,000. The official figure is about two million. The actual figure is probably three to four million. The people who conducted the study raised an appropriate question: What would we think about German political culture if, when you asked people today how many Jews died in the Holocaust, they estimated about 300,000? What would that tell us about German political culture?

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Average

  "Media Control". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1991.

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• For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

  Al Gore

  Political, Culture, Facts

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• While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

  Jon Meacham

  Christian, Religious, Character

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• You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

  John Podhoretz

  Israel, Two, Roots

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• There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Political, Pockets

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• All the themes of incipient fascism are present, to some degree, in our present-day political culture: the fear of the Other, the need for a (powerless) scapegoat, including the theme of expansionism.

  Justin Raimondo

  Political, Degrees, Needs

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• We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Political Revolution, Years

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, Reality, Political

  Tariq Ali (2011). “The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad”, p.13, Verso Books

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• When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

  Mitch Horowitz

  Religious, Political, Culture

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 4, 2010.

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• The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Law, Two, Perfect

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