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"Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change through political settlement, not through violence."
"The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference."
"I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons."
"Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture."
"There should be no political prisoners in a democratic country."
"What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer."
"Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it's actually the conflation of religion and politics - every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress."
"Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered."
"I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains."
"The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained."
"Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption."
"Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political."
"Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political."
"Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred."
"The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate."
"In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment."
"I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence."
"Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas."
"Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins"
"It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk."
