- Cannot
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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
- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only political solutions can end armed conflicts.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a guy who plays political games, and I believe absolutely in one method, which is directness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you have extrapolated the effects a particular science will have on society - cheap clean energy, rejuvenation - the political impact is quite easy to predict. The two are twinned.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020