“It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.” LongPastPoliticalMoralHealthySolutionsAspectToolsWomen's Health Author:Martha Plimpton
“I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.” PeopleThinkingLongPoliticalCultureCoursesImpossiblePerspectiveLong TimeFascinatedSecularIgnored Author:Tom Perrotta
“And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.” LongImportantMomentsPoliticalGivenCareersModernFrontsLuckyJournalismSeatsPolitical LifeLong CareersImportant Moments Author:Judy Woodruff
“Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.” MenWorldLongStillsProblemEarthPoliticalFoundGivenNationsGrowsLibertyMankindRevolutionProudDegreesSolutionsUniversalCapabilityGermsPolitical FreedomPolitical Revolution Book:Lincoln Speeches Source: Lincoln Speeches
“So long as our land is occupied it is the right of the Palestinian people and their factions to combine resistance and political activities. Resistance and its arms are directed against the occupation while political activity is part of re-arranging the Palestinian home.” PeopleLongHomePoliticalLandArmsActivityResistanceOccupationPalestinianFactionsArranging Author:Khaled Mashal
“The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.” LongReasonPoliticalTimePoliticsPartyPoliticianLong TimePlatformsPolitical Parties Author:Will Rogers
“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.” YearsLongHas BeensSeemsPoliticalPoliticsLeftDemocracyPoliticianConcernedGreedCorruptionVotingNerdElection DayArmourPoliticians And PoliticsFunny PoliticianI Hate PoliticsBad Politics Author:Richard Armour
“I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.” LongReasonBigsPoliticalStuffNewsJokesShelvesShelf LifeOld News Author:Tim Heidecker
“John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political junkies, got shot in the head for his efforts, murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious, degenerate FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. The list is long and crazy - maybe Marilyn Monroe's first husband fired those shots from the grassy knoll. Who knows?” KnowsFirstsLongWholeYoungPoliticalHouseWhiteEffortGenerationsCrazyHusbandShotsListsCampaignsChiefsWhite HouseGeekCiaFbiJimmyDegeneratesJunkieDallasCastroHooverJ Edgar HooverJimmy Hoffa Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn.” IfsYearsLongCountryPoliticalMediaFlash Author:Jack Layton
“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.” LongFeelingsPoliticalReligiousEnemyMovementLessonsInstinctRelyMotiveAttemptingAgitationObstruction Book:Practical Agitation Source: Practical Agitation
“But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky (the political communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases.” IfsLongSaidHandsPoliticalAsksWhiteKnowingWiseBlueGreenJewWelcomeAsk MeEtcCommunistCowsBellyMarxismBeardCalvesYou Re Welcome Author:Marc Chagall
“Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.” IfsPersonsLongStillsCountryWholeUseTodayWantedPoliticalCommunicationSceneDegreesArmyPoliceLong AgoTanksFascistsPolitical PowerCoupsIndustrialization Author:Umberto Eco
“From the day I took office, I've been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious; such an effort would be too contentious. I've been told that our political system is too gridlocked, and that we should just put things on hold for a while. For those who make these claims, I have one simple question: How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold?” ShouldLongWould BeAmericaPoliticalWaitingChallengesSimpleEffortOfficeClaimsAmbitiousPolitical SystemsContentious Author:Barack Obama
“I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it much more highly than any business success if I could contribute to an understanding of the world in which we live or, better yet, if I could help to preserve the economic and political system that has allowed me to flourish as a participant.” IfsWorldWritingLongBookHelpingLastsPoliticalValuesWishUnderstandingEconomicCivilizationPreservesIf I CouldBusiness SuccessParticipantsPolitical Systems Author:George Soros
“It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.” LongCountryPoliticalPartyConsiderationPolitical PartiesAvoidedGreat Change Author:Anthony Trollope