Politically Correct Quotes - Page 2

• Id rather be biblically correct than politically correct.

  Mark Batterson

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• I think that the lack of intuition in fashion today is one of the most dangerous things. My fear is that our business is turning into a bag business, and it's all about the bag. But it's not only about the bag. It's about the women. And it's not about a bag or a shoe or the jewelry. It's only about women. . . . Being almost politically correct and doing only what you expect without the ability to make mistakes is very dangerous to fashion. We have to go with our heart. We have to go with our intuition.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Mistake, Heart

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• As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with...

  Idris Elba

  People, Actors, Lines

  "Idris Elba: life after 'Stringer' Bell". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2010.

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• Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.

  Newt Gingrich

  Use, Facts, Uncomfortable

  "Gingrich looks to recharge profile in South Carolina after debate", www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

  Michael Gove

  Children, Mean, Home

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• I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Kind, Statements

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• Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!

  Mitt Romney

  Republican

  Mitt Romney's address to the Republican National Convention, www.npr.org. September 3, 2008.

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• The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's still a place where you can attack religion out of utter, complete, bottomless ignorance and not be considered to have done anything wrong.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Done

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.

  Anne Waldman

  Girl, Ginsberg, Please

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

  Richard Petty

  Tongue, Sticks

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• It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

  Donald Berwick

  World, Care, Health Care

  Interview with Maggie Mahar, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2009.

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• I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.

  Michele Bachmann

  Strong, Philosophy, Real

  "Bachmann Warns Of “Re-Education Camps” For Young People" by Eric Kleefeld, talkingpointsmemo.com. April 6, 2009.

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• The problem is when you try to impose today's standards on people living back then. It's the politically correct thing to do, but it was a different era, a different country then.

  Dick Clark

  Country, People, Trying

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• The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

  Russell Means

  American Indian, Mexican American, One Thing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The problem that we have is thinking there's only one kind of feminist, and that she's politically correct and right on at all times, wears flat shoes, doesn't wear makeup, probably doesn't have sex, is very angry, wears dungarees, is a vegetarian.

  Caitlin Moran

  Sex, Makeup, Thinking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either. This country is in big trouble. We don't win anymore. We lose to China. We lose to Mexico both in trade and at the border. We lose to everybody... We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Winning, Thinking

  Donald Trump during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

  Robert Greene

  Mean, Fighting, Political

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue.

  Milton Friedman

  Thoughtful, Issues, Done

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• Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.

  Robert M. Price

  Jesus, Design, Historical

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• We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.

  Boris Johnson

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Years, Play, Environmental Factors

  Mankind Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 2 (p. 231), Winter 1998.

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• When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.

  Tony Abbott

  Average, Challenges, Use

  "Live from the Melbourne Writers Festival". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. August 27, 2009.

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• When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's become my brand in a way you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

  Christine Lagarde

  Way, Speak The Truth, Brands

  "Christine Lagarde: Facing down worldwide recession". Interview with Lara Logan, www.cbsnews.com. November 21, 2011.

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• If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

  Pat Oliphant

  Editors, Facts, Readership

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.50, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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