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"Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic."
"[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion."
"The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication."
"It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task."
"The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason."
"Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center."
"What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"
"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."
"After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil."
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
"Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid."
"That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one."
"Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen."
"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
"Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?"
"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."
"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."
"But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over."
"To get rich is glorious."
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
