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If you're a status quo writer, you're considered to not be political but that's as political as if you're a progressive writer. Some politics are asked to show their passports and others aren't. In the Dominican Republique, if you're slightly progressive, people have a lot of suspicions that you're up to some sort of conspiracy, that this is some sort of plot. On the other hand, if you're conservative and mainstream, people tend to take that as a given and don't notice the politics.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain?

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

If you're trying to cast the widest possible net to attract the largest selection of men or women, the last thing you should do is to start listing your income, political views, and the like. Avoid mentioning specific comedians, shows, or movies unless those are top-tier attributes on your list.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each acting as an individual to maximize his own wealth in the market.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.

I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan Collini's phrase, "public moralists" and politicians, plutocrats, bankers, arms dealers, and experts and technocrats were not solely defining the moral norms as well as the political lives of our societies. We do have some writers claiming to be public moralists, but, as I said, they have actually been more jingoistic than even the henchmen of Bush and Blair.

I had imagined I would come back at some point. But yeah, that was for a very specific reason. I will be very excited when I can tweet things that are just stupid puns and not be political for a while.

I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case, full stop, period.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.

I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

I happen to be a Republican President... ah... the Vice President.

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage.

I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.

I have always gone through public life and saying that with respect to political candidates, I always measure each candidate against what I think the country needs at that time, and I will vote for the person I think who is most qualified to serve the nation at that time.

I have always favored Capitalism as the best economic system and Democracy as the best political system. They both have the most potential for improving the lives of people. However, both systems need to be reexamined and refreshed so that, in fact, they do serve the majority of people.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.