- People
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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
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is the role of the prime minister to cultivate political leadership in Israel? My answer is yes.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been political.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
We became the first political movement in Italy, and the media didn't even realize it.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
- Ethos
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the FBI was the personal fiefdom of J. Edgar Hoover.
- Arguably
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives complain that the Supreme Court is too liberal. Liberals complain that it's too conservative. Both charges are inaccurate: in reality the Court is a careful political actor that arguably represents the center of gravity of American politics better than most politicians do.
- Distinguished
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political as well as religious cults can be distinguished from legitimate organizations by their use of doublethink. Though political cults espouse extremist ideologies, not extremist theologies, operationally they are virtually identical to religious cults, and they also go to great lengths to control the vocabularies of their members.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you track something like a political campaign and parcel out what's being communicated in a literal and narrative sense, and what's being communicated by means of emotional and symbolic language, you might find that it's the latter elements that absolutely dominate and move people. It makes me want to take that language and expose it.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
- Capable
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
- Miracle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020