Political Quotes - Page 32

• The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

  Jerry Brown

  Government, Problem

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• Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sex, Vacuums, Culture

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• I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.

  Anne Northup

  Soccer, Mom, Country

  "Freshman Rep. Anne Northup Wins GOP Attention with Flair". Interview with Susan Crabtree, www.questia.com. August 25, 1997.

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• Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained in 1982 from the international banking firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus and Company. Nominally, Kissinger Associates (KA) is an "international consulting firm" but "consultant" covers many sins, and in KA's case, this means international political influence-peddling for its two dozen or so important corporate clients.

  Murray Rothbard

  New York, Mean, Cities

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• People, regardless of political views, matter in this state and in this country and in this world. And, you know, when people attack people's basic rights and livelihoods, I'm concerned about it. And as a citizen of Queensland and nothing else, I've got the right to express my view.

  Clive Palmer

  Country, Australia, Rights

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• The Greens have not been providing you with the full information about where their money comes from or what it's about. I think the Greens in this upcoming state election should resign if they're being funded by an offshore political power. It's tantamount to treason and something needs to be done about it.

  Clive Palmer

  Lying, Thinking, Australia

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• Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Business, Korea, Years

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• Policies that support families aren't political issues. They're personal. They're the causes I carry with me every single day.

  Michelle Obama

  Family, Issues, Support

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• Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  "Propaganda".

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• Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the people as a whole and based on the principle that man is the most precious of all possessions, will allow us to go forward more quickly and more harmoniously, and thus make impossible that caricature of society where all economic and political power is held in the hands of a few who regard the nation as a whole with scorn and contempt.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Men, Hands

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• Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.

  Paul Davies

  Motivation, Agency, Years

  "Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Due Process Of Law, Conformity, Disloyalty

  "Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" (television documentary), 7 Mar. 1954

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• Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Thinking, Hatred, Enemy

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.171, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Thinking, Enemy

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

  Eric Ambler

  Men, Civilization, Dying

  Eric Ambler (2011). “A Coffin for Dimitrios”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

  David Hume

  Men, Politics, Knaves

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.37

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• I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Military, War, Fighting

  Extemporaneous speech at the Sixth Centennial Celebration of Islam in the Philippines, June 10, 1980.

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• It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Needs, Fundamentals, Political Systems

  "Poll: Most say Arroyo should go", www.cnn.com. July 11, 2005.

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• Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.

  Giorgio Agamben

  Life And Death, Decision, Acquire

  Giorgio Agamben (2017). “The Omnibus Homo Sacer”, p.135, Stanford University Press

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• Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of 'justice' but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when 'freedom' becomes a special privilege.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Party, Thinking, Government

  Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.69, University of Michigan Press

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• The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Dog, People, Mind

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.48, Vintage

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• The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

  Dick Gephardt

  President, Helping, Students

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• Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

  Frank Carlucci

  Kings, Qatar, Effort

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• The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

  Frank Carlucci

  Arabia, Needs, Crowns

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• Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

  Paul Muldoon

  Trying, Levels, Poet

  Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

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