"All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns."
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"Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life."
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"I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films."
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"There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist."
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"My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics."
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"If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope and believe that you would think I was a servile jerk. Yet this is what our politicians are doing in every speech."
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"I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one."
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"What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle."
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"If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective."
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"When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power."
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"[Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing the party political problems."
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"A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on."
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"Political analysts are saying that as a candidate, Donald Trump is 'a totally unqualified nuisance.' In other words, he is a legitimate contender for the Republican nomination."
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"Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter has filed papers to run for president. But in his official filing, he misspelled the word 'president.' Political experts say it's all part of Hunter's plan to attract Bush supporters."
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"The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people."
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"I think President Bush is a moron! I think that the only reason he was voted into office is because his family is a very founded political family and they have a lot of power in the world."
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"Herman Cain has moved ahead of Mitt Romney. Can you believe that? Political analysts say this is because Americans don't understand Mormonism but they do understand pizza."
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"The latest political rumor, North Korea ruler Kim Jong Il is close to naming his successor. Yeah, he said the only person with glasses big enough to replace me is Nicole Richie."
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"Almost all education has a political motive."
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"[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come from within they are such things as creative art, and love, and thought. Such things can be helped or hindered by political conditions, but not actually produced by them; and freedom is, both in itself and in its relation to these other goods the best thing that political and economic conditions can secure."
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