You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.
Jose Manuel Barroso
ChangeDemocracyRevolutionPolitical
General Zia-ul-Haq, a dictator and unscrupulous political actor, used Islam as a pretext for waging war in Afghanistan and adopting an aggressive stance towards India. By advancing a more orthodox version of Islam, he was able to hold on to a repressive regime and quell any opposition.
Asma Jahangir
WarPoliticalIndiaActorIslam
I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.
Mark Edwards
MusicTimePoliticalRadioThings
I have no interest in making a 'Vietnam' film, no interest in making a direct political statement.
Michael Cimino
PoliticalVietnamStatementFilm
I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.
George Michael
ConfidenceDinnerSongPolitical
I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.
Viktor Orban
PoliticalBelongPupils
I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
Gabriel Iglesias
LifePeoplePoliticalYouGoOut
By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'
Alastair Campbell
HappinessPoliticsHappyPolitical
I think - everything just in the political realm - women are usually perceived to be more trustworthy and compassionate. And they usually fare well against their male counterpart.
Aja Brown
WomenThinkPoliticalMoreAgainst
I think I would say that there is absolutely no way to reconcile an austerity agenda with climate action. Our political class needs to understand that the fight against austerity and the fight for climate action are the same fight.
Naomi Klein
FightActionThinkPoliticalSay
It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.
Margaret Cho
BeautifulFeelPoliticalImportant
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
W. E. B. Du Bois
JusticeConsistencyLegalPolitical
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
Ferdinand Marcos
PeopleIndependencePoliticalNever
We need to be very careful in making judgment on opening borders and adopting immigration policies, as these are areas where political and emotional elements feature prominently.
Alain Dehaze
ImmigrationPoliticalNeedOpening
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
Al Gore
WarWorldFashionPoliticalWill
A lot of guys try to stay out of the political limelight because you have things like endorsements; you have fans and all these other things that you represent.
Malcolm Jenkins
PoliticalYouTryOutThingsFans
It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the formal political arena in a way that would disperse power and engage with people in their own lives.
David Blunkett
PowerPeoplePoliticalSomeoneWay
It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
Manuel Puig
PoliticalHandsPartyBe CarefulHe
I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.
Vicente del Bosque
GoodWorldFeel GoodPoliticalYou
You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.
Fidel Castro
IdeasPoliticalYouIndependentMay
The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
William C. Kirby
PoliticalSideChinaEconomicTaiwan
My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.
Al Franken
HomeParentsDinnerNightPolitical
The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
Manning Marable
CreativityGenerationPoliticalRun
I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it.
David Brock
LifePoliticalProfessionalReaction
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