Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows. - John Doolittle The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too. - Susan George If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery. - Sam Harris We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not really existed, or only half existed, because we could not imaginatively realize ourselves and communicate to the world, because we had ...

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth. - Michelle Malkin The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures. - Manning Marable

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. - Kevin Bacon I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them. - Howard Barker As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents. - Gavyn Davies Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there. - John Turner I have had many Ashfield people say to me that they might not agree with my political views or my decisions but that they supported my right to be heard. - Geoff Hoon I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bil...

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. - Kevin Bacon We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are. - Ed Balls I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them. - Howard Barker As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents. - Gavyn Davies Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there. - John Turner I have had many Ashf...

The question is, how do I balance narratives that are wonderful with narratives of wounds and self-loathing? And this is the difficulty that I face. I am trying to move beyond political rhetoric to a place of ethical questioning. I am asking us to balance the idea of our complete vulnerability with the complete notion of transformation or what is possible. - Chris Abani I just stepped in shit, and now I've got political rhetoric all over my shoes. - Jarod Kintz A blanket can be rolled up, much like I roll up my emotions when I listen to political rhetoric. - Jarod Kintz I'm so constipated that every time I go to shit, the only thing that comes out is political rhetoric. - Jarod Kintz So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric. - John Podesta

The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before. - Anita Dunn The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist. - John Maynard Keynes

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. - John Arbuthnot A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace. - Fredrik Bajer When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or making it easier for the less desirable of the two major candidates to claim victory. These lies are repeated every election and they must be ignored. You never waste your vote if you vote your conscience. - Glenn Beck First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties. - Michael Beschloss There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties. - Toba Beta The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes. -...

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia. - Frank Carlucci Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region. - Frank Carlucci Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. - Recep Tayyip Erdogan Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation. - Atal Bihari Vajpayee

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. - Stephen Jay Gould Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds . Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation. - Jill Bolte Taylor

Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination towards evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray. - Veronica Roth Republican and Democrat are simply two different factions of the same ruling party, and their congressional battles are primarily over political spoils, not political ideology - Vox Day Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. - E O Wilson Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so. - Bob Geldof The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park y...

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue. - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue. - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation. - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future. - Thabo Mbeki

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments. - Ann Coulter I once watched several criminals engage in an organized argument, while an audience of supporters cheered them on, but I was so disgusted that I had to turn off the political debate. - Jarod Kintz What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving. - Jeane Kirkpatrick I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them. - Richard M Nixon Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant. - Kathleen Parker While the political ...

I think political correctness is a moving line. - Clive Anderson Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite - Iain Banks Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. - Jacques Barzun Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up. - Glenn Beck Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression. - Eric Cantor To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world. - Noam Chomsky I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And...

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time. - Carly Fiorina It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars. - Noam Chomsky Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end. - Chris Christie During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected. - Everett Dirksen Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting. - Rich Lowry There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity. - Mike Mccurry A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. - H L Mencken I know w...

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. - Russell Banks The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. - Angela Davis 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. - Lawrence Lessig

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there. - John Turner I have had many Ashfield people say to me that they might not agree with my political views or my decisions but that they supported my right to be heard. - Geoff Hoon What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter. - Elena Kagan My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement. - Mike Lee I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy. - Ted Nugent

While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker. - Ben Edwards If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive. - Hamilton Jordan With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded. - Lennart Meri I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States. - Steve Wynn

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda - Joe Bageant I've been really at the highest levels of American political life. - Hillary Clinton The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter. - Herbert Croly American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest. - Richard Dawkins Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself. - Jonah Goldberg It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility o...