"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"
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"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
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"Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race."
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"Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it."
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"...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete."
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"I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader."
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"I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition."
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"Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future."
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"I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability."
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"It [9/11 event] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work here, which refused to have any interest in dialogue and political organization and persuasion."
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"I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place."
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"Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience."
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"The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical."
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"We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both."
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"When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder"
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"In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued, than at present. ... In short, the different ranks of men are, in a great measure, regulated by riches."
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"People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes because if they do it, they will lose their political funding and they won’t do it."
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"No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it."
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"In Mexico, muralism is an important part of the artistic vocabulary, and it has a very different place than it does in the US. Here, you see mainly commercial signage and dead slick graphic works, or murals that are incredibly narrative and littered with too much content - bad political art. But in Mexicali, all kinds of artists work with mural art. In Mexicali, the social practice of art existed in a completely authentic and unselfconscious way."
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"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."
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