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Letter "P" » Politics
«The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.»
Author: Angela Davis
| About:
Politics,
Work
| Keywords:
activist, activists, contributions, inevitably, issues, ravage, ravaged, ravages, tension
«The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.»
Author: Deng Xiaoping
(Politician)
| About:
America and Americans,
Politics,
Presidency
| Keywords:
bragged, bragging, brags, election, leave office, midterm, political system, political systems, something else, the President
«The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth»
Author: George MacDonald
| About:
Ignorance,
Politics
| Keywords:
correctness, pillared, pillars, Pillars of, political, political correctness, refusal, Refusals, steadfast, willful
«The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
| About:
Politics
«The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not»
Author: Neal Boortz
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
democratic government, Democratic Party, principal
«The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything»
Author: Thomas Nixon Carver
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
conservatives, literature, radical, radicals
«The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men»
«The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Politics
| Keywords:
political machine, triumphs
«The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Politicians,
Politics,
Questioning
| Keywords:
coated, coating, eager, ethical, ethical standards, industrial, industrial waste, national, piece, Politicians, President, revealing, slime, standards, television, The Job, The Question
«The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
aim, alarmed, alarming, alarms, clamorous, endless, hence, hobgoblin, hobgoblins, imaginary, imaginary being, LED, menaced, menaces, menacing, politics, populace, practical, practical politics, safeties, safety, series, The Alarm, The Hobgoblin, The Menace
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