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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

  Michael Bay

  People, Relax, Needs

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• I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, People, Faster

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• I haven't learned to be politically correct yet.

  Herman Cain

  Havens

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• If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

  John Cusack

  Criticism, Satire, Social

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• I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's PC and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

  Beth Ditto

  Feminist, Accepting, Feels

  'Ask me anything!' by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

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• People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, People, Way

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.362, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

  Denis Leary

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• People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

  Tracy McGrady

  Voice, People, Perception

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• I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.

  Luke Scott

  Country, Godly, Facts

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• Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.

  Denis Waitley

  Integrity, Mean, Justice

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• Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences so it is morally and politically correct that the developed world who made this climate change be responsible by providing financial support and technological support to these people.

  Ban Ki-moon

  People, Support, Climate

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• Several respected climate scientists have told me that there would be even more vocal skeptics if they were not afraid of losing funding, much of which is controlled by politically correct organizations.

  Peter Friedman

  Organization, Climate, Would Be

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• And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.

  Adam Parfrey

  Play, Names, Dumb

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• A lot of individuals are so worried about being politically correct. I'd rather go ahead and say what's on my mind than to sit there and come up with some PC 'Oh, the guy is a great fighter and I have a lot of respect for him.' If I don't mean it, why is it even coming out of my mouth? ... I want to fight Lesnar. I hate who he is as a person. I want to break his neck in the ring. I want him to be the first person that dies due to Octagon-related injuries. That's what's going through my mind.

  Frank Mir

  Hate, Mean, Fighting

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• I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.159, Editions Didier Millet

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• I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Brother, Marijuana, Thinking

  "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.

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• It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.

  Roger Mahony

  Hard Work, America, Mexico

  "Perspective: Ours is a nation that should know better". staugustine.com. June 04, 2005.

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• I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

  Joshua Homme

  Said

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• ...These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.

  Gad Saad

  Atmosphere, Might, Eggshells

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• As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.

  Rosie Perez

  Believe, Political, Progress

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• What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.

  Rachel Gibson

  Thinking, Fishing, Retarded

  Rachel Gibson (2010). “Nothing But Trouble”, p.13, Harper Collins

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