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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use Facebook, but I find that I'm... if I put up a picture of my dog there or a sunset or something, I get a million hits. If I mention anything to do with my career, three people respond. And/or if I say anything political, I have to duck afterwards. I try to be selective.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied political science, and when I fell into acting in college - it was just a total fluke that I became an actor. I ended up changing my degree and went for a double major and missed political science by two classes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A society is not a market. It is a political community.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have complained that too many 'secrets' were dished out by the intelligence and special operations communities to director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and their crew, part of a broader pattern of using intelligence for political effect.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.
- Forfeit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have political discussions with my friends, I piss them off because my personal position is that there's no difference between the parties. It's the Red Sox and the Mets.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money.
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- Nov 07, 2020