America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.
If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.
A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.
The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?
Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just to polite to say it"~Luna Lovegood
Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.
As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.
My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality.
I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.
As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as fast as the movement of tectonic plates
A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.
Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance
