“A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders.” YearsMadeIdeasPoliticalLeaderPovertyCasesSeeingEconomicYears AgoExtremesDebateConsensusFringeEmergingBusiness LeadersPolitical LeadersExtreme PovertyPolitical Debates Author:Winnie Byanyima
“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.” MenYearsMindHas BeensMadePoliticalLife IsGivenOpinionPrinciplesFiveSubjectsCircumstancesYears AgoTwentiesFive YearsTwenty FiveOpportunistPolitical Opinions Author:A. P. Herbert
“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.” ThinkingWayGivingYearsBelieveMeanPoliticalSocialTermPartyEconomicSeriousConflictYears AgoCrisisDevelopingRevolutionaryCapitalistSocialistStagnationSocialist Party Author:Anthony Crosland
“The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up.” YearsKindCountryPoliticalCommunityMilitaryExampleWasteYears AgoTestsDiedCleanEnvironmentalAbsenceGasNervesValleysSheepPollutionSkullsOur CommunityReservationsPolitical Will Author:Winona LaDuke
“I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.” ShouldYearsIdeasPoliticalYears AgoArgumentCrossesDecidedSlaveHearingFavorsHolesBunchDressers Author:Scott Adams
“As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.” YearsMeanTwoPoliticalMoralThousandYears AgoEthicalThousand YearsPlato Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau
“Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a Tory prime minister resigned, Britain's voted to leave the European Union, there are massive political issues to be addressed, is it really a good idea to start a big debate in the Labour Party when I was elected less than a year ago with a very large mandate not from MPs, I fully concede and understand that, but from the party members as a whole.” ThinkingYearsIdeasWholeMomentsBigsPoliticalAsksWishPartyIssuesMembersYears AgoUnionsDebateMinistersBritainLabourMassivePrimeGood IdeasEntitledPrime MinisterEuropean UnionMandatesResignedLabour PartyPolitical IssuesMps Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm more convinced than ever that his political positions as well as his spiritual positions arise out of such precise and realistic thinking that they're extremely sound.” IfsThinkingYearsHumansWellsSaidSpiritualPoliticalSoundHuman BeingsClearPositionYears AgoCalmConvincedAriseRealisticCompassionatePreciseLamaDalai Author:Pico Iyer
“What bothers me is that I don't see the eagerness for a genuine solution to the political people on the opposite side. They want to continue to use the grievance, to use whatever happened hundreds of years ago that did not even happen to them, as a way of expressing how this country is failing or is less than decent and good.” PeopleWayWantYearsCountryUseHappensPoliticalSidesFailingHappenedSolutionsYears AgoOppositesGenuineBotherDecentGrievanceEagerness Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to be able to do the kind of things that people of faith did 40 years ago in the heat of the civil rights revolution. This is a moral issue of every bit as much importance requiring every bit as much sacrifice, courage, and energy as that crisis did.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsKindAbleActionPoliticalEnergyBitsMoralIssuesRightsSacrificeRevolutionYears AgoImportanceCrisisCivil RightsHeatUnconventionalMoral IssuesPolitical Action Author:Bill McKibben
“It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The architects of power in the United States must create a force that can be felt but not seen."” YearsStatesPoliticalForceFeltUnitedUnited StatesStandardsYears AgoScientistFamiliarArchitectAcademicMainstreamAmerican PoliticsScholarshipProminent Author:Noam Chomsky
“Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.” KnowsNeedsYearsLongMatterEnoughYoungPoliticalRaceAttitudeYears AgoRelationNo Matter WhatFolksStatisticsSpectrumRace RelationsPolitical Spectrum Author:Barack Obama
“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” MenWorldYearsPoliticalPoliticsThis WorldYears AgoGentleGreek Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
“If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in - in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that - everything's true and everything's false.” PeopleIfsWayYearsHas BeensCountryStatesMightPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesNewsYears AgoOrganizationImpactDebateMainstreamSkepticalVigilantForeign CountriesPolitical Debates Author:Barack Obama
“While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.” YearsLittlesGovernmentPoliticalThreePoliticsLibertyFourSocietyThousandUnderstoodYears AgoThousand YearsStandstill Author:John Adams
“Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.” YearsLittlesMovingPoliticalNationsRepublicanYears AgoMarginsCoalitionsDemographics Author:John Podhoretz
“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.” IfsShouldYearsPlayTodayPoliticalPoliticsStandardsYears AgoRadicalRacistJudged Book:Controversial Essays Source: Controversial Essays
“Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.” KnowsTryingYearsSaidAbleMovingPoliticalGoalClassMiddleEasierTenCapableYears AgoStrongerTablesMoving ForwardReformMiddle ClassPolitical Reform Author:Abdallah II
“A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.” WorldYearsFirstsWellsStatesDonePoliticalCoursesNationsFreedomDecisionViewsOpinionDutyFailureOughtSpeechAchievementYears AgoAccountsIndependentIndependenceNotesCelebrateBordersSovereignSovereigntyPositivelyFirst Anniversary Author:Forbes Burnham
“Any outside use of military power would at best furnish a temporary respite from the processes that we see playing out. We know that because we have been through all this before. The "surge" of several years ago was supposed to provide space and time for Iraqi political interests to work out their differences. 30,000 additional U.S. troops failed to lead to any working out of those differences, and the outcome is the mess we see today.” KnowsYearsHas BeensUseTodayPoliticalProcessInterestDifferencesSpaceMilitaryYears AgoIraqWork OutMessOutcomesTemporaryTroopsTime And SpaceMilitary PowerRespite Author:Paul R. Pillar