"Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation."
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"Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom."
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"Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical."
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"There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue."
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"Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life."
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"There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed."
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"the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important."
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"there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!"
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"I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political."
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"I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary."
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"It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer."
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"Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party."
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"One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television."
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"The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas."
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"There is parallels these two great men John McCain and Ted Kennedy of great impact in the Senate, you don`t agree with everything they did but certainly they had major impacts as senators. Their one major political failure not to be elected president but that didn`t stop them from having enormous impact and at roughly the same age, exactly the same disease. It`s kind of a poignant sad parallel."
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"Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school."
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"Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it."
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"The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right."
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"Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?""
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"Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest."
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