#political

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American. ↗

— David Mamet

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If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#anatomy #because #direct #dirty #experience

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage. ↗

— Manning Marable

#generation #intellectual #leave #out #overcome

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#certain #created #did #even #ever

I am a political person, though not with a big P. ↗

— George Michael

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Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#american cities #cities #corruption #country #crime

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conventional #does #formulating #hope #left-wing

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#freedom #hungry #masses #political #political freedom

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist. ↗

— Jared Leto

#explore #i #i think #incorrect #job