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The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.

Investing in women and girls may once have been considered a radical notion or even a waste of resources, but in most places in the world today, women and girls are increasingly recognized as a critical link to greater prosperity, political stability, better health and public policy.

Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill ... its purpose is to reach a political goal,

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

I felt that what is personal is political.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

I never thought that I could reach such a high political position. But I have always been ready to serve my country.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace.

Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.

I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.

Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.