- Health
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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
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former president in the criminal dock as our country moved into its bicentennial year was profoundly disturbing.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. It overpowers whoever touches it. By merely doodling a Toothbrush mustache on a poster, you make a political statement.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character.
- Covenant
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they want to accomplish, rather than talking about their opponent, we would begin to shape and reshape American public opinion on what the political world looks like.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020