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"A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman."
"The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb."
"Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics."
"The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it."
"I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying."
"The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved."
"He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice."
"I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight."
"People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them."
"In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters."
"In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not."
"At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!"
"The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital."
"Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field."
"The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service."
"My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper."
"I think I've always been extremely conscious of the kind of empowerment that comes from realizing that you're in a position to express yourself. And the fact is that - and this is the thing about punk rock - that everyone is in a position to create culture, and that point has never been lost on me. To me, that's an important political aspect of doing this, and trying to live in a way that's about dialogue as opposed to like... spectacle."
"I think, then, there's the sort of, like, political dimension to lyrics. One of the problems that I've had with my output as a lyric writer is that I look back at it and there's some turn-of-phrases and some images and some kind of montage-y kinds of things I'm really proud of. But it kind of bums me out that people have told me again and again that they don't really understand what I'm trying to say."
"There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn't it ridiculous?"
"I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine."
