"I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations."
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"I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons."
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"What happened on "As Cool As I Am" was, you know how in the `90s, "the personal is political, the political is personal"? That was a really big thing. Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time."
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"I am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It's part of who you are and you shouldn't feel ashamed of what you believe in."
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"Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity."
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"I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election."
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"'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'"
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"I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister."
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"It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England."
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"To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers."
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"The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked. I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices."
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"Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom."
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"War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political."
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"We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie."
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"In war the first casualty is the truth."
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"Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society."
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"The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics."
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"Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised."
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"I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?"
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"The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose."
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