Quotes About Political

If you think about it, a president blowing off the Correspondents' Association dinner might be a political boon in this anti-Washington day and age, a nod to the "average Americans.

As historian Johanna Fernández writes in a study co-authored with political prisoner Abu-Jamal, "The deployment of hysteria around the issue of crime and the association of crime with black rebellion helped consolidate public support for legislation designed to suppress political dissent."[18]

According to University of California law professor Jonathan Simon, in California, for example, political prisoner George Jackson and "Jackson's story" of emergence from poor black communities to violent resistance within prisons, "set the terms of the state's prison-expansion policy in the 1980s and provided an icon of the convict-as-revolutionary-terrorist that would reset the national common sense about prisons and prisoners.

Liberal racist pity, as well as a conservatives' racist callousness, were both engines of Lockdown America. Foucault's works remain important, enabling us to see carceral machinery working across multiple spheres of social life and political ideology.

Even when our carceral state locks away the truly violent offender, it is thereby hiding the social, political, and economic structural forces that are the genesis of such violence. Locking up the violent offender is a way to focus attention away from elites' structural responsibility for generating the conditions of violence.

Political utopianism1 is tyranny disguised as a desirable, workable, and even paradisiacal governing ideology.

Natural law is superior to, and precedes, political and governmental institutions.

Although they self-identify as political independents, Pew Research reports that the rising generation "vot[es] heavily Democratic and for liberal views on many political and social issues," including "a belief in an activist government.

the ascendant position of Yahweh as the national god under the monarchy would make convergence of divine imagery a powerful ideology political tool. Yet, given the lack of information, the premonarchic period cannot be ruled out entirely as the older context for convergence, at least to some degree.

Here in America, government began as a tool to assure freedom. It gradually turned into a hideously expensive political toy designed to redistribute your wealth and control most aspects of your business and private life.

We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the future of the American democracy where so many people are giving up.

Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.

We must apply a judicial, not a political, standard to this record. Asking a judicial nominee whose side you will be on in future cases is a political standard.

If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?