Quotes 461 till 480 of 491.
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We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
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When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison -
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
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When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.
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When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
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When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
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Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.
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Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
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Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
Target Zero: A Life in Writing (2015)
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