Political Environment Quotes

• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Cancer

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970

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• Practically every profession has a really political environment. I think the world has become more competitive. There are so many people in every place competing for small slices of success and power. It's a heated atmosphere and whenever you have competition, you're going to have more politics and manipulation.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, People, Political

  "Interviewing Robert Greene about Mastery, Hustle, Fear, Boxing and MMA". Interview with Ben Thapa, www.bloodyelbow.com. November 12, 2012.

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• The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Differences, Political, Matter

  "Words Have Consequences" by adeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.

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• To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.

  Umberto Eco

  People, Political, Secret

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Prominent Democratic strategists are growing increasingly nervous that the national political environment is not only bad for their side but moving in the wrong direction in the final days before the election, a trend that not only could cost their party control of the Senate but also result in double-digit House losses.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Party, Moving, Loss

  "As Vote Looms, Dems' Challenges Grow" by Chris Cillizza, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 03, 2014.

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• In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to distract from the failure of the president to reignite our economy. And Im simply not enthusiastic about giving them hundreds or thousands of more pages to pick through, distort, and lie about.

  Mitt Romney

  Lying, Giving, Political

  "Romney Steadfast in the Face of Growing Calls to Release More Tax Returns". www.nytimes.com. July 18, 2012.

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• What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

  Tony Campolo

  Mean, Hands, Political

  "The Growing Impossibility of Interfaith Dialogue" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I think Dr. Ben Carson is a unique political personality. He's what we call a conviction politician. He actually believes in what he says. Here's a fellow who had been a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins for over 30 years. Babies conjoined at the head, he is the one that did that. He's a superstar. Ben Carson steps away from medicine, looks at the political environment around him, and he is aghast at what he sees.

  Daniel Henninger

  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold War tensions - the tendency is to counteract the feelings of fear and vulnerability with a variety of military, paramilitary and police measures, despite the reality that this kind of excessive reliance on force in many ways intensifies the very problem it is purporting to solve.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, War, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia and the Kurds and there is a foreign extremist group - ISIS - trying to take advantage of the political environment through violence. If the Iraqis can resolve their political differences, it will be far more difficult for ISIS to thrive. Moving forward, we should continue to evaluate additional steps to help combat ISIS as we see what the Iraqis are willing to do politically, but we must also firmly guard against mission creep.

  David Adam Smith

  Military, Moving, Isis

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• I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Self, Political, Revolution

  Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.

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• There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.

  Robert Greene

  People, Political, Stuff

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• This is the problem with foreign policy - talking about foreign policy in a political context. Politics is binary. People win and lose elections. Legislation passes or doesn't pass. And in foreign policy often what you're doing is nuance and you're trying to prevent something worse from happening. It doesn't translate well into a political environment.

  David Corn

  Winning, Talking, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But there’s only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.

  Julie Mehretu

  Space, Political, Understanding

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• The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.

  Julie Mehretu

  Hopeful, Political, Historical

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• As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

  John Boyd Orr

  Airplane, Government, Political

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• And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates.

  Lucas Papademos

  Country, Thinking, Judging

  "Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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• From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing immigration reform to solve the Republican Party's political problem. I'm trying to save our nation from, I think, a shortage of labor and a catastrophic broken system.

  Lindsey Graham

  Party, Thinking, Broken

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• The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

  Jon Meacham

  Christian, Religious, Fall

  "Jon Meacham: Covering Conflict". Interview with Randall Balmer, ircpl.org. October 28, 2009.

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• They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America is mired in two wars that we're losing at the moment. We have a political environment that is as poisonous as anything I've seen, at least since the end of Vietnam.

  Michael Scheuer

  War, Two, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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