Political Quotes - Page 118

Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction after all comes from a different, less rationally manipulable side of the brain. I am personally very attached to reactionary figures like Dostoyevsky, Hamsun, and Céline.

The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

The overwhelming majority of Puerto Rico is completely, completely alienated from the political structure. Colonialism is really, really strong and alive in Puerto Rico. And the politicians have taken full advantage of that. We have a debt of $74 billion, caused primarily by the system and the political structure that exists in Puerto Rico.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The architects of power in the United States must create a force that can be felt but not seen."

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

I took a vow of political celibacy.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

...one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but also across all divergences of political opinion ... [Jews have] that mercantile passion which constitutes one of the principle traits of their national character

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.