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Quotes About Political

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.
~ Shirin Ebadi
Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.
~ Leopoldo Lopez
The Islamist camp is infused with a righteous indignation, as the forces of old, corrupt and rotten Egypt unite to try and drive them underground once again. This indignation is lethally reinforced by a willingness to die for their beliefs and a determination that they are not going to be driven from the political field as they were before.
~ Crispin Blunt
The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.
~ Lynn Nottage
In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'
~ Steven Pinker
Beto is not a transformational political saviour. He is a hypocritical hack who's so lightweight he goes where the wind blows even if it tumbles him and the economy to irreversible hell.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
~ Bill Viola
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
~ Caroline Kennedy
While the ACLU's supposed principles may shift with the political winds, facts do not. They cannot.
~ Chad Wolf
Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
~ Jim Costa
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
~ Thom Yorke
Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.
~ Bjorn Lomborg
I would love to do a political drama. I'm a 'West Wing' fanatic.
~ Will Chase
Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.
~ Nigel Short
Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.
~ Richard Engel
A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.
~ John Avlon
I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.
~ Richard Trumka
Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
~ Bassem Youssef
The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
~ Ali Khamenei
Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.
~ Grover Norquist
The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
~ Gerry Adams
Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.
~ Ken Mehlman
You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.
~ John Podhoretz