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(1) Do not cry. No matter what. (2) Use your appearance to create an image of strength. (3)... More
... a friend told me that she had read of a woman who had knitted a wash rag for President... More
... feminism is a political term and it must be recognized as such: it is political in women’s... More
... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for... More
... if you’re a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that... More
... liberal intellectuals ... tend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has... More
... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination. More
... the Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do:... More
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the... More
... the only way in which Mr. Brooke could be coerced into thinking of the right arguments at the... More
... the separation of church and state means separation—absolute and eternal—or it means... More
... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering... More
... we engage in politics because we don’t know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way... More
... what’s been building since the 1980’s is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames... More
... woman’s narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty... More
... women are supposed to be unfit to vote because they are hysterical and emotional and of... More
... [Washington] is always an entertaining spectacle. Look at it now. The present President has... More
...I have never known a “movement” in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm.... More
...I want to see a film, they send the Israeli army reserves to escort me! What kind of life is... More
...I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half... More
A candidate once called his opponent “a willful, obstinate, unsavory, obnoxious, pusillanimous,... More
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. More
A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only... More
A good deal of our politics is physiological. More
A half a dozen major wars,
And forty-five presidents. More
A hovering temporizer, that
Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
Inclining to... More
A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears;
see how yond justice... More
A new and terrible aristocracy was growing up among them,—the aristocracy of hidden firearms. More
A party is perpetually corrupted by personality. More
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship... More
A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste. More
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. A conservative is a man with two... More
A statesman is an easy man,
He tells his lies by rote;
A journalist makes up his... More
A week is a long time in politics. More
A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in... More
All is politics in this capital. More
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are “up... More
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should... More
Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from... More
America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant... More
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The... More
Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this... More
Any campaign—like any good drama—will have its stylized performances. So too will it have one... More
Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all... More
Are you involved in politics now? Leave that to the writers and to the ugly girls. More
As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant... More
As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we... More
As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money... More
At this time in American history, we are like ghosts talking gibberish through different... More
Attending upon a prince is as dangerous as keeping company with a tiger. More
Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you. More
Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I’ve... More
Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of... More
Be factious for redress of all these griefs,
And I will set this foot of mine as far
As... More
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed. More
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must... More
Before now poetry has taken notice
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed... More
Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body. More
Being prime minister is a lonely job.... you cannot lead from the crowd. More
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment... More
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something... More
Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief. More
Bill McKay: I thought the point was to say what I wanted.
Lucas: Well, it is. But in the... More
Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a... More
Brutus had rather be a villager
Than to repute himself a son of Rome
Under these hard... More
But now Nixon has come along and everything I’ve worked for is ruined. There’s a story in the... More
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that... More
Circumstances ... give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour and... More
Civil dissension is a viperous worm
That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. More
Clear? Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and get me a four-year-old... More
Cleopatra’s nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered. More
Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. More
Colonel [John Charles] Fremont. Not a good picture, but will do to indicate my politics this... More
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. ...Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold... More
Conviction. More
Cynical realism—it’s the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable... More
Dad and I had breakfast this morning. We had a look at each other’s speeches. He would have... More
David: All the reporters are on the bus.
Lucas: Okay, start the bus then. And drive them over... More
Dear Brand: You love laughing; there is a king dead; can you help coming to town? More
Demagogue—a vessel containing beer and other liquids. More
Dianne’s not one of the boys, but she’s not one of the girls, either. More
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can... More
Don’t talk to the people until you’ve listened to the people. More
Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to... More
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that... More
Every President wants to do right. More
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent,... More
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. More
Everything is politics. More
Falling in love with a United States Senator is a splendid ordeal. One is nestled snugly into the... More
Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and... More
Fear, Craft, and Avarice
Cannot rear a State. More
Finality is not the language of politics. More
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. More
Following publication of an advertisement of a “Barbacue & Ice” at Beauchamp’s Springs,... More
For conspiracy,
I know not how it tastes, though it be dished
For me to try how. More
For God doth know, and you may partly see,
How far I am from the desire of this. More
For people may not know what they think
about politics in the Balkans,
or the vexed... More
From the beginning, the placement of [Clarence] Thomas on the high court was seen as a political... More
From the way the grass bends, one can know the direction of the wind. More

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