“Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.” GovernmentCulturePartyIssuesRepublicanDiseaseHighestSickCorruptionDirtySatTomsDelaySymptomsDirty Money Author:Howard Dean
“The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China.” PeopleShouldCultureForceInterestPartyDevelopmentFundamentalsMajorityChinaProductiveTrendsCommunistOverwhelmingOrientationCommunist Party Author:Jiang Zemin
“Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.” WayPoliticalCulturePartyVisionTraditionFollowingMythologyFollowersPolitical Parties Author:B. W. Powe
“The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMindIdeasDoneShowsCultureSidesViewsPartyApproachNewsArgumentExtremesDebateBest WaySettlingAssumptionOppositionUrgesCriticizeBoth SidesEssaysDisputesPitsFrame Of MindSpokespeople Author:Deborah Tannen
“You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.” WantCulturePartyEconomySuccessfulCitizensPressesIsraelOpennessHostileFree Press Author:John Podhoretz
“The good thing about Egypt is, between the two World Wars, Egypt was - had a liberal society. It has a political life. It has parties. It was not - it was dysfunctional in many ways, but it was not a very repressive regime. Egypt, at one time, was the bellwether of the Arab world, was the trendsetter, created great culture, movies, cinema, you name it.” WorldWayTwoWarPoliticalCultureNamesPartyGood ThingsCinemaWar Of The WorldsOne TimeRegimesEgyptTwo WorldsPolitical LifeArab World Author:Hisham Melhem
“If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.” PeopleIfsGivingShouldBelieveLightSeemsPoliticalCultureOpportunityNationsPartyStruggleAchieveRepublicanCapableEnlightenmentDemocratEaseRepublican PartyPolitical PartiesBetter OffIf You Believe Author:Eleanor Roosevelt