- Government
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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
- Arab World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
- Cite
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.
- Nov 07, 2020
In my store, I don't do anything political. There are no signs up, and I'm not pushing anyone.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind of fire wall against Iranian fundamentalism. And as it developed over the 1980s, it became a real political run-a-muck... even though the Iraqis were known to be harboring Palestinian terrorists.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price.
- Fairer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have two political parties in this country; we cannot have one of them be abandoned to complete nutcases. We've got to have two good political parties.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020