Political Spectrum Quotes

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.

  Warren Rudman

  Country, Taken, Home

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• So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Party, Thinking, Rude

  "Meet the press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 12, 2010.

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• Both sides of the political spectrum must one day realize that limitless government intrusion in the economy, in our personal lives, and in the affairs of other nations cannot serve the best interests of America.

  Ron Paul

  Government, America, Political

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• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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• I often think people on opposite sides of the political spectrum may have similar values around care, around thriving or around independence, or around helping the disadvantaged, but they have different ideologies, different ideas and philosophies about how to go about that. It's important that we start to see each others humanness, while at the same time not losing sight of those differences, views and speeches and actions that do cause harm, that we're clearly taking a stand against.

  Mark Coleman

  Philosophy, Thinking, Sight

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Political, Majority

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism is New Deal Liberalism. In fact, his actual policies would not have been a great surprise to General Eisenhower. The fact that this is called a "political revolution" is a sign of how far to the right the political spectrum has shifted, mainly in the last 30 years since the neoliberal programs began to be instituted. What he was calling for was a restoration of something like New Deal Liberalism, which is a very good thing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Political Revolution, Years

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• I mean you've got a conservative and right-winged press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.

  Hillary Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Mean

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• There are people who want to import the dregs of the world into this country in order to cut this country down to size. Do not doubt me on this. I know it sounds hard to believe. Those people will be found somewhere on the political spectrum, and they vote Democrat.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Believe, Cutting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Political, Sides, Made

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

  John Avlon

  Wings, People, Political

  "Six questions for John Avlon". Interview with John Avlon, www.economist.com. May 16, 2010.

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• Bloomberg says in this poll, leaders from across the political spectrum have condemned this policy, saying banning members of an entire religion from entering the country goes against everything we believe in as Americans, and it will make our country less safe by alienated the allies we need to fight ISIS.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Believe, Fighting

  "Despite Backlash Over Muslim Comments, Supporters Stand By Trump". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, wkms.org. December 10, 2015.

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• The conservative side of our political spectrum has had an outsized voice over the last few years. I think especially since the establishment of Fox News, which has created an echo chamber in which people just hear the same ideas repeated ad infinitum. And you know, it's just basic advertising, basically. You hear the same idea over and over again. Or you can call it propaganda if you like.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Thinking, Echoes, Years

  "Bill Moyers: Where the Right Went Wrong". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.truth-out.org. February 12, 2012.

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• I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that we have to play the game of strategy, and understand how to move the pieces because this is how the political spectrum functions.

  Bocafloja

  Moving, Believe, Games

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different times, the more right elements of the political spectrum have claimed for their own.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Distance, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'.

  Alison Assiter

  Believe, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Mirrors, Long, Interesting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be making by taxing marijuana... We are filling our jails with nonviolent drug offenders - predominantly young, predominantly African American... It's a great beyond left and right issue. It has support across the political spectrum and also the support of the majority of the American people.

  Arianna Huffington

  Marijuana, Law, Jail

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• I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Political, Sides

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Race, Years

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• One of the tools I like a lot is the Just Like Me practice. It's one of the empathy practices where we put ourselves in the other's shoes. Rather than get caught up in the difference in the ideologies, we actually come back to the fundamental idea: just like me, this person on the opposite political spectrum wants to be happy, wants to be safe, wants to thrive, wants to be healthy, wants to find peace of mind.

  Mark Coleman

  Opposites, Practice, Shoes

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You look at my audience, and it proves what Congress thinks America is, is wrong. I get people across the political spectrum. Parents and kids come and they're all punked out, and there are these other guys in John Deere caps.

  Lewis Black

  Kids, Thinking, America

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• What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Issues, People, Political

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• Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us.

  Walter Block

  Philosophy, Thinking, Unique

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