- 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
- Bracket
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.
- Geography
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- Nov 07, 2020
Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).
- Characterized
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey is the youth of America. This is a worldwide movement designed to destroy the one democracy in the Middle East and the hopes of people who have occupied that land for over three thousand years.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a U.S. senator from North Carolina. I'm worried about doing the business on the Capitol Hill. I'm not going to get into the parlor games and the political discussions about a separate and co-equal branch.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020