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We're in a political depression - a great political depression -- Chuck Todd
The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions. -- William Jennings Bryan
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. -- Billy Bragg
English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist. -- Bill Watterson
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong -- Alfred Russel Wallace
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes. -- John Podhoretz
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half. -- Wendell Phillips
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage. -- Carl Bernstein
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy. -- Alex Carey
The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming. -- Joseph J. Romm
If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers. -- Albert Camus
It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice. -- Barbara Olson
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses. -- John Eliot
With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly -- through the chronicle of a powerful family's fortunes -- one of the great political dramas of our time. -- Ronald Steel
Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered. -- Hannah Arendt
The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be. -- Lee Kuan Yew
The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not a great deep political thinker. -- David Mitchell
Our great social and political advantage is opportunity. -- George William Curtis
The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism. -- Paul Keating
One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope. -- Shane Claiborne
Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena. -- Duncan Hunter
ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders. -- Don Nickles
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. -- George D. Prentice
You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country. -- Brian Mulroney
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. -- Peggy Noonan
I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning. -- Nelson Rockefeller
This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine. -- Caleb Cushing
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge. -- John Oliver
The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses. -- Emma Bonino
The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses." -- Emma Bonino
Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding. -- Hooman Majd
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. -- George Orwell
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. -- James Tobin
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors. -- Shawn Amos
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. -- Dan Rather
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. -- Caryl Rivers
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic -- J. G. Ballard
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I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world. -- Dahlia Lithwick
The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left. -- Geoffrey Wheatcroft
The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place. -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time. -- Armand Hammer
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. -- Henry F. Ashurst
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing -- Glenn Greenwald
I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations. -- Adam Smith
the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
In both Israel and America, Jews have experienced unparalleled freedoms, achieved great economic success, and exercised appropriate degrees of political power. -- Meir Soloveichik
In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward. -- Rose George
The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance. -- Martin Jacques
The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. -- Jeff Sharlet
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours. -- Kevin Rudd
It's always great to do a movie that you find is entertaining, but also can give some sort of political or social message. -- Edward Zwick
In an odd way, Donald Trump and maybe Brexit is gonna be great for inspiring a new wave of socially conscious political music. -- Moby
It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican. -- Tim Pawlenty
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The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics. -- James L. Petigru
I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology. -- Vinod Khosla
I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter. -- Sharron Angle
I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered. -- George Allen
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts. -- Adam Davidson
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation. -- Barbara Olson
I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me. -- Stephanie Cutter
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible. -- David Harvey
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama. -- Asif Kapadia
The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States. -- John Marshall
If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly. -- Iris Chang
The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football -- Benjamin Netanyahu
There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that. -- Pankaj Mishra
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. -- George Washington
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. -- Wallace Stevens
2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series! -- Thomas Menino
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust. -- Edmund Burke
The person who says "I'm not political" is in great danger. Only the fittest will survive, and the fittest will be the ones who understand their office's politics -- Jean Hollands
I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world. -- Condoleezza Rice
If political cartoonists continue to rely on newspapers, we may be in serious trouble. It's a very transferable form of journalism, though - it works great on Web sites. -- David Horsey
Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me. -- Jack Layton
Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework. -- George Papandreou
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side -- Mark Twain
I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted. -- Barack Obama
What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. -- Peggy Noonan

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