Political Life Quotes - Page 4

• In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very interesting developments, reflecting the revitalization of community power with a more and more active presence of minorities in political life, including the presence of women who are of course by no means a minority.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Mean, Interesting, Community

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• Education, work, and access to health care for all are key elements for development and the just distribution of goods, for the attainment of social justice, for membership in society, and for free and responsible participation in political life.

  Pope Francis

  Keys, Justice, Political

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

  John Howard

  Political, Truth Is, Absolute Truth

  ABC Radio "AM" program, August 25, 1995.

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• The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

  J. William Fulbright

  Political, Program, Difficulty

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• Women in Jordan are participating in all aspects of civil as well as political life - as female judges, parliamentarians, businesswomen. And the evolution will continue. This is not something that happens overnight.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Judging, Political, Female

  Source: content.time.com

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• In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

  David Duke

  Support, Political, Black

  "CNN-Edited Interview Proves that Dr. Duke is Right about Zio-Censorship!". CNN Interview, davidduke.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine like those of Kant or Mill. You could characterize this political good as the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another: the duty to give citizens public reasons for one's political actions.

  John Rawls

  Giving, Political, Doctrine

  Interview with Bernard G. Prusak, www.commonwealmagazine.org. September 25, 1998.

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• A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

  John Rawls

  Political, Vote, Virtue

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• Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

  John Rawls

  Religious, Political, Important

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.616, Harvard University Press

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• I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, putting an end to unjust wars, and so and so.

  Barbara Boxer

  War, Rights, Political

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I believe the Democratic Party has got to be firmly on the side of working families, taking on the big money interests, who today, to a very significant degree, control our economic and political life.

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Believe, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My family life and early political life - being exposed to the news constantly, being enrolled in an Afrocentric education program, and doing the extracurriculars I did - played a huge role in me finding my path.

  Baratunde Thurston

  Political, Path, Roles

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• In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.

  Martin Schulz

  Political, Loyal, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

  Jeff Sharlet

  War, Struggle, Political

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Struggle, Political, Different

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• There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Spiritual, Self, People

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• I don't think you could find any person in political life today who has been subjected to more attacks and had more money spent against her by special interests, among whom you have named a few, than I.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Political, Special

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

  Michael Rostovtzeff

  War, Long, Political

  Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff (1928). “A history of the ancient world”

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• I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially when from time to time that illusion is sustained by even a hint of reality. Change does happen in the political process.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Pain, Disappointment, Optimistic

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• Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Political, Cities At Night

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

  George Will

  People, Political, Erotic

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• The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Political, Growing, Influence

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks

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• If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

  Jane Addams

  Country, People, Political

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.17, Basic Books

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• I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Artist, People

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• How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

  John Wain

  Political, Love And Friendship, Bars

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, p. 301, 1988.

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