Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that
Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well.
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
This is what he disliked about political people – injustice and calamity animated them, it was their milk, their lifeblood, it pleasured them.
I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.
So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.
I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.
But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.
It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.
I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.
I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.
I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I just wanted to know what they'd had for breakfast.
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
