Affair Quotes - Page 11

• Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

  Rush D. Holt, Jr.

  Citizens, Scientist, Obligation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I really loved ["The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P" by Adelle Waldman]. It's having a really hot moment. Unlike many hot books, it's actually really wonderful. I tend to have that reaction: I don't want to read it if everyone thinks it's cool. It was a really interesting insight into being young and male. Now that made me feel really thankful for my boyfriend and really thankful because he wasn't like that protagonist, but I know so many people who are like that protagonist.

  Lena Dunham

  Book, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what do we conclude from that? We conclude exactly what Kissinger was kind enough to say: These doctrines are unilateral. They are not intended as doctrines of international law or doctrines of international affairs. They are doctrines that grant the U.S. the right to use force and violence and to harbor terrorists, but not anyone else.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Important, Violence

  Source: progressive.org

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• International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience otherwise the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders and it can spread to important places.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Order, Ideas

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too dangerous to allow disobedience. A leading principle of world affairs - though, of course, officials and commentators put it more politely.

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Mafia, Principles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Care, Littles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If some small storekeeper somewhere decides he's not going to pay the money, the Godfather doesn't let him get away with it. The money doesn't mean anything to him, but he sends in his goons to beat him to a pulp. You have to establish credibility, otherwise conformity to your orders will tend to erode. International affairs runs in much the same way.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Mean, Order

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs.

  Noam Chomsky

  America, Way, International

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The US and Canada are now increasingly isolated in the hemisphere, and sooner or later, I think we're going to find that the US and Canada are simply excluded from hemispheric affairs. That's a sharp reversal of what was the case not long ago.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Long Ago, Hemisphere

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Pregnancy, Reality, Office

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The idea of self-determination was gradually given credibility by international law, and it lent strong emancipatory support to movements of liberation struggling against a West-centric world order. Latin American countries used international law creatively, both to limit the protection of foreign investment by establishing the primacy of national sovereignty in relation to natural resources, and by building support for the norm on non-intervention in internal affairs.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Strong, Determination

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every goddamned minute of them, but sooner or later I've outgrown every one of them, and when I did I got fed up and threw them out. If they can't keep up with me, the hell with them.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Real, Proud, Married

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• By the time it's considered socially acceptable to start screwing, most of us are sexually constipated, and this is often an incurable condition. I think young people should be able to have their first sexual love affair whenever they feel like it. In the case of most girls, this would be around 13 or 14; with most boys, around 15 or 16.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Girl, Thinking, Boys

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• What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.

  John Lydon

  Art, Want, Kind

  Source: www.axs.com

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• The link between domestic policy and international affairs is essential: We cannot say we care about domestic issues and we leave international politics, and the opposite is wrong as well. Both are connected and should be addressed together.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Opposites, Issues, Together

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• In strategic affairs, clarity and consistency are very important.

  Ashton Carter

  Consistency, Important, Clarity

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Any blaming that Russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the United States is slander. And it has no evidence at all.

  Dmitry Peskov

  Russia, United States, Blame

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Men, Two, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of bucks and hope they spend 'em in our city. We're talking about creating jobs, creating new companies and then we move from there to talk about cooperatives which can become some of those jobs, some of the solidarity economy where we can begin to band together people so they'll understand that a job is not a single individual affair but a collective affair.

  Chokwe Lumumba

  Jobs, Moving, Talking

  Source: bknation.org

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• There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. But traditional Hollywood has been much more frightened than it ever was in the '70s about presenting things that could be perceived as politically incorrect.

  Ivan Reitman

  Real, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.

  Frederic Tuten

  Years, Years Ago, Love Affair

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essentially say there is no difference between information operations, public affairs and psychological operations. They have a new name for that too, it's called Information Engagement. What I hope people take away from this is that it's a window into a larger phenomenon. After a decade of Iraq war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

  Michael Hastings

  Running, Wall, War

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I just follow my nose, and instead of letting someone run my affairs and probably make me wealthy within a matter of years, I've just kept the board of directors down to zero. I make all the decisions, and they can't all be right, and my lifestyle is very expensive, so that means I have to work a lot. It's the opposite side of the coin from sinking back into the recliner and becoming somebody they bury.

  Merle Haggard

  Running, Mean, Decision

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I believe it is both unwise and even wrong to interfere in the affairs of other nations. Indeed, if we are honest, we will see that this is one of the reasons for 9-11.

  John F. Kerry

  Believe, Honest, Reason

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We need a leader who has a sense of balance, an understanding of the ebb and flow of history and a sense of our country's unique place in it. This is a foreign policy debate, and you cannot conduct foreign policy without a sense of what we are fighting for. And any President who can reduce the conduct of this country's affairs to a morning's attack by a bunch of demented fascists does not, in my view, understand what this great nation is all about.

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Unique, Leader

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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