Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments?
Judith Butler
PeoplePoliticalSaidSameJewish
Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual.
Anthony Kennedy
DemocracyPoliticalSpeechTrueThan
In the exodus out of Iraq, we're seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was control of chemical weapons stockpiles, without a status-of-forces agreement. We left before the Sunni and Kurds we fought with and fought alongside with were stable, or without empowering them. We left on a political rhetoric.
Ryan Zinke
ControlPoliticalSeeingRhetoric
Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
Jeff Goodell
CourageThoughtPoliticalOilPlanet
Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.
Greg Boyle
BorderPushPoliticalPovertyForce
There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.
Mike McCurry
PoliticalRhythmSimilaritiesVenture
The need to do something about global warming is obvious. And it's also pretty clear that the public understands the need for change and is ready to embrace it. What is missing is political will in Congress to stand up to the powerful energy companies and their well-paid lobbyists.
Chellie Pingree
ChangeStand UpEnergyPolitical
'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone at a bar. But it appealed to our most basic Darwinian instinct: selecting a good mate. You can't go wrong when a show's premise is hard-wired into human DNA.
Seth Shostak
GoodDatingGamePoliticalComedy
With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.
Andrzej Wajda
PoliticalPlaceAudienceAbandoned
I'm a student of Ice Cube and Scarface, which means the stuff I rap about is not radio-friendly, and it's very opinionated. and it's very much from the perspective of a black man in America, and our opinion ain't always popular when we have a political opinion.
Killer Mike
PerspectiveManOpinionPolitical
The notion that the levels of radiation would be damaging to human life is preposterous. It's simply not true. It is a political claim more than it is a scientific claim. THAAD has been a thoroughly tested system, and it has been extremely effective.
Trent Franks
LifePoliticalTrueMoreHumanBeen
I do know in the 1960s comics, Martian Manhunter took on the form of a black man - that could have been influenced by the political climate back then.
David Harewood
ManBlackPoliticalBackKnowBeen
Most politicians keep close tabs on what's happening back home and work assiduously to keep lines of communications open with the political players in their states or districts.
Joshua Micah Marshall
WorkHomePoliticalBackOpenKeep
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
Aung San Suu Kyi
LifeStruggleDemocracyPolitical
There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.
Richard Armitage
ChangeDemocracyPoliticalBoxMany
Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn't have to be about boosting egos and grabbing your crotch and dissing women. There's a way to make political and social issues interesting and entertaining to the young rap audience.
Michael Franti
WomenPoliticalInterestingYoung
If all Henry Kissinger contributed to the Middle East were a regional arms race, petrodollar addiction, Iranian radicalization, and the Tehran-Riyadh conflict, it would be bad enough. His legacy, however, is far worse than that: He has to answer for his role in the rise of political Islam.
Greg Grandin
ConflictLegacyPoliticalEnoughBad
Lincoln's address at Gettysburg - 272 words dedicating a cemetery at the site of one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles - has been called by scholars the source of all modern political prose.
Mike Quigley
WordsWarPoliticalGettysburgBeen
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
Christian Lous Lange
SocietyPoliticalHumanOrganized
'Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.
Sean Paul
TimeSupportPeoplePoliticalFar
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
Andrea Dworkin
PoliticalDiscriminationGenocide
Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.
Kevin Hassett
PoliticalTaxOutJudicialBeen
In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
Tommy Lee Jones
WorldPoliticalPositionAnything
If political cartoonists continue to rely on newspapers, we may be in serious trouble. It's a very transferable form of journalism, though - it works great on Web sites.
David Horsey
GreatPoliticalJournalismTrouble
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