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“If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.”

Ifs Thinking Ends School Political Born Practice Politician Practicals The End Of The Day Political Science

Author:George Weah

“Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.”

Ifs States Political Levels Talking Practice Doctors Bases Medicine Marijuana Competent Practice Of Medicine

Author:Barney Frank

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”

Enough Political Brain Practice Honest Fool Tricks Being Honest Deception Deceit Treachery

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as well as within the psyches of individuals- the momentous event of the coming of the self into conscious realization.”

“Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.”

Political Practice Economy Expression Theory Essentials Claims Structure Historical Ideology Materialism Concrete Primitive Testimony Fluctuation

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“Intellectuals advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.”

Use Political Practice Theory Tools Accidents Brutal Superiority Marxist Theory And Practice Subservience Marxist Theory

Author:Allan Bloom

“The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.”

Political Difficult Interest Practice Democratic Affair Limitation National Interests Foreign Affairs

Book:Private thoughts on public affairs: a citizen looks at Congress, and a Democrat looks at his party

Source: Private thoughts on public affairs: a citizen looks at Congress, and a Democrat looks at his party

“Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.”

Ends Political Practice Danger Function Activism Reach Out Representation Surrogates

Author:Angela Davis

“We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.”

“The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.”

Country America Political Values Names Party Practice Influence Republican Shame Our Country Division Republican Party Tactics Slander Religion And Politics

Author:John McCain

“The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much but deliver little. The central doctrine of Neo-Conservatism is "democratic capitalism." This is the ultimate oxymoron, because in practice the political pluralism that should underlie democracy cannot exist in a climate of economic plutocracy.”

“While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.”

Important States Political Differences United Practice Technology United States Policy Innovation Management Factors Explanation Japan Trends Engineering Paradigm High Technology

Book:Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions

Source: Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions

“The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.”

“In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of our kids are good kids. Large numbers do volunteer work. Nearly all believe in God, and most practice their faith. Teen pregnancy and violence are actually going down. Across America, under a program called True Love Waits, nearly a million teens have pledged themselves to abstain from sex until marriage.”

“Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.”

Matter Political Force Religious Practice Color No Matter What

Book:Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”

“Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.”

Way Political Lying Common Silence Practice Truth Is Dirty Maintaining Another Way High Places

Book:Dirty Truths

Source: Dirty Truths