Political Discourse Quotes - Page 2

• Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Voice, Political, Analysis

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• In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.

  Etgar Keret

  Dog, Israel, People

  "My country right and wrong". Interview With Rory McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

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• Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.

  John Lewis

  Hatred, Political, Sowing

  "John Lewis Condemns GOP Campaign Tactics". voices.washingtonpost.com. October 11, 2008.

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• If we want to talk about the coarsening of the culture, I hope you devote a whole two hours for it and I would be happy to be a guest, but I'll also offer up some other guests. I don't appreciate many of the things that are said in our political discourse, I don't appreciate many of the things that are said on social media. You [Anderson Cooper] and I are attacked every single day, I'm sure.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Media, Two, Appreciate

  "Anderson Cooper Interview With Kellyanne Conway Says Hillary Clinton Has Been Fighting For Herself For 30 Years". Interview With Anderson Cooper, lybio.net.

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• The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments are made to secure the political base and frighten the opposition rather than to illuminate issues. In political discourse, information is to be 'spun' to reinforce pre-existing beliefs, and to discourage opposition.

  Richard Lindzen

  Issues, Political, Littles

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• Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Artist, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2012). “The Historic Unfulfilled Promise”, p.65, City Lights Publishers

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• I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.

  Cecily McMillan

  Political, Rooms, Should

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Political, Grew Up, Lows

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its grip is simply to acquiesce to the nation's most powerful factions, to obediently remain within the permitted boundaries of political discourse and activism. Accepting that bargain enables one to maintain the delusion of freedom - "he who does not move does not notice his chains," observed Rosa Luxemburg - but the true measure of political liberty is whether one is free to make a different choice.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Powerful, Moving, Nsa

  "Surveillance State evils". www.salon.com. April 21, 2012.

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• Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them?

  George Carlin

  Political, Beef, Needs

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and, more importantly, in their future.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Government, People, Political

  "Senator Jay Rockefeller Wishes FCC Would Shut Down Fox News". www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2010.

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• A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Thinking, People, Political

  "Bernie Goldberg on Obama's Strengths and Weaknesses in 2012 Election". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2011.

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