Quotes About Political

They, the lawmakers, were hoodwinked by the insurance companies who are still funding the national tort reform movement, a political crusade that has been wildly successful.

There is a deeply held grievance; resentment at the inability to win their case by legal means or total alienation from a political system that offers no redress; and finally, a resort to very public violence to coerce the enemy to change its policy.

Did having a dog make you less political?

Assassination, in Wolf's opinion, was "an increasingly popular amateur sport of the times"; and "political true believers," as he called nearly everybody, were always the sworn enemy of the artist—who insisted, however arrogantly, on the superiority of a personal vision.

an army of incompetents, poltroons, political cronies, and victims—always there are the victims whom the others send to slaughter in their stead—

I would now, however, more strongly emphasize, and especially as to the United States, the inequality in income and that it is getting worse—that the poor remain poor and the command of income by those in the top income brackets is increasing egregiously. So is the political eloquence and power by which that income is defended. This I did not foresee.

And then you've got a media ready to package that, because it takes away from the political content of them songs. Suddenly there's not a real serious social message, there's just a drug addict. I

Williams created the first government in the world which broke church and state apart. Because those who had linked the two believed that political authority came from God, this led to a fission whose fallout included the new and equally explosive concept that the state derives its authority from and remains subject to its citizens.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.