#political

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views. ↗

— Carl Karcher

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Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#criminals #explanation #eyes #gangs #gentlemen

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

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This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#philosophy #political-science #wikileaks #change

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation. ↗

— David Kay

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I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine. ↗

— David Kay

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I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. ↗

— John Keegan

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The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill. ↗

— David Keene

#bill #economic #error #grand #political

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

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Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. ↗

— Neil Kinnock

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