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“At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.”

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Author:Al Franken

“I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political debate. I have been sorely tempted to launch a military attack on foreigners, and have felt the frustration of having to negotiate with allies or even former enemies to reach a consensus instead of taking more decisive unilateral action.”

Has Beens Action Political Felt Enemy Military Ambition Debate Former Frustration Allies Intensity Officers Businessman Tempted Consensus Foreigners Submarines Political Debates

Book:The Jimmy Carter Library

Source: The Jimmy Carter Library

“The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.”

“What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice my children's present for their future. It seemed an either/or. I didn't realise that by being with one's own children I would have had a better understanding of the ones who are not my own. I was thinking of them but I didn't spend the time that they needed from me. It's a tribute to them that they came out so well.”

Thinking Wells Children Together Political Felt Understanding My Own Sacrifice Needed My Children Realising Tribute Either Or

Author:Vanessa Redgrave

“In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government.”

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Book:A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.”

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Book:Persecution and the Art of Writing

Source: Persecution and the Art of Writing

“Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.”

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Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.”

Mean War Political Felt Military Soldier Affection Profession Civil War Grants Fondness Old Soldiers

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.”

People Kind Together Political Speak Felt Interest Moral Intellectual Monsters Sensual Not Alone Monstrous

Author:Adrienne Rich

“No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.”

People Needs Long Law Political Order Felt Office Budgets Convince Political Will

Author:George Osborne

“The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.”

Source: Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll

“Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.”

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Author:Asif Ali Zardari

“Global warming is already acting upon us with an accelerated feedback and compounded effect that may be irreversible! We do not have eons or centuries or many decades. Most of us alive today may not even have the luxury of saying 'Après moi, le déluge' because we will be around to experience it ourselves. And if you think it will be 'interesting' or 'exciting,' ask the tsunami survivors if that's how they felt. This time the plutocratic drive to 'accumulate, accumulate, accumulate' may take all of us down, once and forever.”

Ifs Thinking May Today Political Asks Felt Interesting Acting Forever Alive Effects Century Exciting Decades Luxury Global Warming Survivor Feedback Live For Today Tsunami Irreversible

Author:Michael Parenti