“I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.” IfsNeedsFeelsFirstsPersonsPoliticalLaughingHappened Author:Kathy Najimy
“Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate to rest than The Donald. Now he can get to focusing on the issues that matter. Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?” KnowsMatterPoliticalIssuesTakenHappenedBirthMoonFakeGet BackLandingCertificatesBirth CertificateMoon LandingBiggie Author:Barack Obama
“When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.” PeopleWayDoeWarPoliticalNationsHappenedEasierMachinesVilify Author:Alexander Siddig
“The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.” PeopleWorldHardShowsPoliticalForceCasesClearHappenedMilitaryUnionsDemocraticIntentionInspiredSovietSoviet UnionDominationCrushedCuba Author:Augusto Pinochet
“Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration. I assume full political responsibility for what happened.” WantEndsDoneTodayPoliticalGoalResponsibilityGreaterHappenedAssumingAvoidingHarborsChileDisintegrationFatherlandRancorPolitical Responsibility Author:Augusto Pinochet
“No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.” PoliticalLeaderHappenedSceneRisingLabourOpportunist Author:Michael Foot
“With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.” PeopleWellsImportantPoliticalReadingRolesEconomyOur LivesFailingHappenedEconomicMilitaryInformationComfortableMachinesIntelligentFinancialMedicalTitlesOddPhenomenonArtificial IntelligenceArticlesArtificialPhasesIntegratedIntelligent Machines Book:The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence Source: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
“The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.” ThinkingMenTryingYearsFirstsTwoBookDifferentReasonPoliticalCultureBlackPerfectBoysRightsHappenedGayFirst TimeEmpowermentTwentiesWestAcceptedErasOutsidersCoincidenceAmerican CultureFashionablePolitical CorrectnessBeing DifferentPostersGay RightsCorrectnessX Men Author:Mark Millar
“Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America in the past 12 years and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure.” PeopleWorldDifferentAmericaPoliticalAsksSocialHappenedMediaPressureSexualityAidsOwnersStemPeersRepressionSocial LifeDifferent WorldsMisinformationPeer PressureSaloonsHerpes Author:Jack Nicholson
“Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.” MenLongMadeMatterUsePoliticalTermPartyHappenedStrangeHonorAbuseCastsNobleThings HappenCeaseMade ItCherishSuspicionLong AgoPolitical PartiesAnother ManStrange Things Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.” PeopleThinkingI CanCountryPoliticalSocialGrowing UpGrowingHappenedGrewGrew UpConscienceRaisedOur CountryPolitical History Author:George Clooney
“after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.” TwoWarSometimesStatesPoliticalAnswersSecretGenerationsHappenedCostResourcesFunctionCongressEmpoweringPresidencyEquationsDeliberateDroppingTotal WarAutonomousCost Of War Author:Rachel Maddow
“Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.” IfsThinkingMenArtFactsLawPoliticalSituationHappenedTroubleSubjectsSeriousElectionMedicineAstronomyAwfulInstructionQualifiedElection DayBotanySerious Subjects Author:Hugh Price Hughes
“I believe God did create the world. And I think we're finding out more and more and more as to how it actually happened.” ThinkingWorldBelieveHumorPoliticalI BelieveHappenedFindingsBelieve In GodPolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush
“I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.” HumorMightPoliticalRaceHappenedPositionPresidentialDiscussionAwkwardPolitical HumorFinality Author:George W. Bush
“I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university.” TryingHumorPoliticalAcceptingHappenedStudentsCollegeUniversityConvinceRejectsPolitical HumorLabelingCollege StudentsTenants Author:George W. Bush
“I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...” ThinkingPoliticalReligionNamesChristChurchHappenedShyBad Things Author:John Lennon
“People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.” PeopleWorldReasonPoliticalUnderstandingIssuesClearHappenedGroupsEconomicOrganizedVotersIncentives Author:Thomas Sowell
“It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.” DoeImportantActionPastPoliticalPassionPoliticsEnergyLeftNationsWealthConsciousnessHistoryDoubtHappenedShareIdentityDiversityHappeningsPrejudiceMarkNotesBoundariesLandscapeCollectivesConceptionMulticulturalismTenseSuccessionStanceVisceralCultural DiversityUnleashedDissolvingCollective Consciousness Author:Joyce Appleby
“The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.” MenYearsKindBookEndsMomentsPoliticalBornImaginationMemoriesHappenedMiddleMilitaryColdLondonBarsConfusionEncountersFiftyThat MomentDisgustingWornAccentsAssociatesSpyAirportsHandfulMiddle AgedWorn OutScotchInformantsIrish Accent Author:John le Carre
“The same thing will happen in China that happened in Chile. Political freedom will ultimately break out of its shackles. Tiananmen Square was only the first episode. It is headed for a series of Tiananmen Squares. It cannot continue to develop privately and at the same time maintain its authoritarian character politically. It is headed for a clash. Sooner or later, one or the other will give.” GivingFirstsCharacterHappensPoliticalBreakHappenedSeriesChinaSquaresEpisodesSooner Or LaterClashBreak OutShacklesChilePolitical FreedomTiananmen Square Author:Milton Friedman
“My fear is that that's what's going to happen with robotics and the military. Importantly, this discussion has to involve not just the scientists, but also the political scientists. It's got to be a multidisciplinary discussion. You can't have it be another repeat of what happened with the people working on the atomic bomb.” PeopleHappensPoliticalHappenedMilitaryScientistDiscussionRepeatsBombsRoboticsAtomic BombMultidisciplinary Author:Peter Singer
“What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.” WorldStatesTodayLawPoliticalSocialProcessRealizingHealingClearHappenedDiseaseHappeningsDecadesMedicalPrimariesWarfareLocksSymptomsParadigmWorld TodayPolitics Today Author:Marianne Williamson
“Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I had been through so much. Seeing my father's life struggle and so many whole generations lose their potential or possibility in their lives. Just being pushed into this political struggle and the damage done not only to their lives but their relatives.” LongDoneWholePoliticalFatherInterestLosesStruggleSeeingGenerationsHappenedNew YorkPossibilityLong TimeChinaDamageJust BeingLife StrugglePolitical Struggle Author:Ai Weiwei
“What's happened in the United States is something that has already happened in Europe and that is that Islam is become 'otherised', it has become a kind of receptacle into which fears and anxieties about the political or economic situation, about the changing racial landscape of this country are being thrown.” KindCountryStatesPoliticalUnitedSituationUnited StatesHappenedEconomicAnxietyEuropeIslamLandscapeThrown Author:Reza Aslan
“The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.” PeopleKindWarPoliticalTermDealsRightsHappenedMissingCrimeUncertaintyDisappearanceWar CrimesAllegationsPolitical RightsDetainees Author:Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
“Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the French occupation to the most recent revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya among other countries. The question is not their participation. Their question is the incorporation of women's voices fully in the new definitions of the countries where change has happened.” WorldCountryPoliticalVoiceRichHappenedRevolutionDefinitionsActiveOccupationOther CountriesParticipationEgyptLibyaArab WorldPolitical ChangeTunisiaAlgeriaIncorporationActive Participation Author:Zainab Salbi
“We [Afghanistan government] were in the process of cleaning up the government when these attacks happened in the north - not only in Kunduz, but also in other provinces. Our special forces are limited - we cannot be everywhere at the same time and we had to defend every district regardless of how insignificant it might be, because of the very social and political makeup of this country.” CountryGovernmentMightPoliticalForceSocialProcessHappenedSpecialMakeupAfghanistanCleaningInsignificantProvincesCleaning UpSpecial Forces Author:Ashraf Ghani
“Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has been used and there's been too little plain, scientific, and economic thinking. And so, the entire political class has been captured by an idea, which as always with the best bad ideas has a grain of truth in it, which is then exaggerated beyond all reason. This has happened before - one thinks of the Dreyfus case, for instance.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensIdeasReasonProblemPoliticalUsedLanguageClassCasesHappenedEconomicClimateDebateInstanceBoardsGasGrainCapturedExaggeratedBad Ideas Author:Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
“It's best to think of these as two things - they're related, but there's different dynamics going on with each of them. A key difference is Abyei is contested territory. We still do not know whether Abyei is going to belong to the new country of South Sudan or effectively the new country of Sudan, the northern part. That was supposed to be decided by a referendum in January; that referendum never happened, so it was being dealt with through political negotiations.” ThinkingKnowsStillsTwoDifferentCountryPoliticalDifferencesHappenedKeysDecidedSouthSupposed To BeRelatedTwo ThingsTerritoryNegotiationJanuaryDynamicsReferendumsSudan Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“Both of these places, Cairo's downtown and Tahrir Square, are in the heart of downtown Cairo. They are places where young people gather to exchange political and cultural ideas. And so that's possibly a factor into why they went after these institutions, although there's been no public comment from the government on why these raids happened.” PeopleHeartIdeasGovernmentYoungPoliticalHappenedInstitutionsFactorsCommentSquaresDowntownCairoTahrir Square Author:Leila Fadel
“I think Def Jam happened to be one of the labels that really didn't have a good grip on things that were going on. I'll say that - that's my political answer.” ThinkingPoliticalAnswersHappenedLabelsJam Author:Joe Budden
“I disagree with the analysis that you've put about what happened in relation to the student demonstrations and protests and the incident with the Prince of Wales' car. We're very clear that we have to separate out the political responsibility from operational responsibility of the police.” PoliticalResponsibilityClearHappenedCarStudentsRelationPoliceAnalysisProtestDisagreeIncidentsDemonstrationWalesPolitical Responsibility Author:Theresa May
“I had a great deal of independence from the president and the White House during the entirety of my five years. And I'm not sure exactly what that is, but our friend, Walter Dellinger, has a theory about it, and I think he's probably right. And the theory starts with the fact that I worked in the White House for a year and a half before coming over to the position of SG. And because of that, when I was nominated, there was some chatter out there that, "Oh. They're putting a political hack in. This has never happened before."” ThinkingYearsFactsPoliticalHousePresidentWhiteDealsHalfFiveHappenedPositionTheoryIndependenceNot SureFive YearsWhite HouseHacksChatterEntirety Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.