“What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.” MadePoliticalInterestDoubtConflictBlindMade ItNo DoubtVotersSenateBlindnessQualifiedConflict Of InterestBlind Trust Author:Kathleen Clark
“The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.” ThinkingMenYearsMadeTwoCountryEnoughRealityPoliticalValuesIndividualOur LivesRightsAchieveHundredConceptsMade ItOther CountriesFeatsIndividual RightsProdigiousPolitical Thinking Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.” HumansMadeFilmPoliticalSocialMy OwnHuman BeingsMade ItLandscapeRealism Author:Paddy Considine
“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
“The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.” MenMadeEndsStatesDonePoliticalForceEasyUnitedUnited StatesHe ManMastersCitizensActivityCreaturesTasksRemainsPropertyConservativeMade ItCorporationsServantTrue FriendBeing ThereCommonwealthEasy Tasks Book:Letters and Speeches Source: Letters and Speeches
“I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.” MadeHumorPoliticalRegretVicesMade ItPresidentialCandidatesCommentI RegretVice PresidentPolitical HumorPresidential Candidate Author:George W. Bush