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- Nov 07, 2020
Political Quotes
Political life, criticized and examined from several sides.
This set includes one quote critical of a named judge's judicial philosophy, alongside more general observations about school boards serving as a training ground for political leadership. For satirical takes on politics, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.
- Nov 07, 2020
The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.
- Nov 07, 2020
Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must remember that in the '70s, Democrats still grasping for Camelot were desperately pinning their hopes on Teddy while Republicans were doing everything they could politically to turn him into a punch line post-Chappaquiddick. And the idea of Ted Kennedy - rather than the actual man - dominated his political legacy through the early '90s.
- Ethically
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He's not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation.
- Common Values
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why not let the main parties wither? Because I know of no better vehicle than the political party to enable those with common values to come together and reach a position on issues that can then be offered up as a choice of programmes for voters.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe it or not, we all share the same values in the Labour party, but there will always be differences of opinion on policy - that is in the nature of the broad-church political parties we have under our flawed first-past-the-post electoral system.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
As income inequality increases, the social and political sway of those at the very, very top grows, too. They are nearly all men, and men whose lived experience tells them that women, for whatever reason, just don't have what it takes.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state. Business is global; government is national.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s - deregulation, weaker protection for unions, the shareholder value movement, and the subsequent inflation of executive compensation.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.
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- Nov 07, 2020