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I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that we have to play the game of strategy, and understand how to move the pieces because this is how the political spectrum functions. -- Bocafloja
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. -- Harry S. Truman
I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments. -- Colleen Hanabusa
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding. -- Rick Larsen
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. -- David Shuster
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. -- Woodrow Wilson
The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics. -- Ron Fournier
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. -- Alva Myrdal
On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan's political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region. -- Asif Ali Zardari
This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director. -- Ben Edwards
Speaking for the nation as a whole entails understanding and feeling the pain, as well as understanding the aspiration of the different cultural, social and political make-up of the nation. -- David Blunkett
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are. -- Antony Beevor
I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward. -- Mark McKinnon
My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting. -- Tammy Bruce
Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind. -- Nate Mendel
It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united. -- Salva Kiir Mayardit
The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others. -- Herbert A. Simon
What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism. -- David Blunkett
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. -- Michael Leunig
I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense. -- John Cassavetes
You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society. -- Andrew Aydin
To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other. -- Kenneth Waltz
What we're witnessing really is a political realignment, I mean I think we're moving from a traditional understanding of left-right politics that we've had for a long time. -- Ben Domenech
The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private freedom - religious and otherwise - shrinks. -- Joseph Sobran

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