Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.

I’ve always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and...

Everyone’s entitled to express their political beliefs. I don’t presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

The emergence of one world consciousness must be accompanied with one world political infrastructures.

Today it is evident that we have two political parties: the Tax and Spenders and the No-Tax and Spenders. Neither party is fiscally conservative. Is there no room at the inn for an honest conservative?...

I do see this as a response to a weakened political situation, a willingness to do what it takes to maximize his influence.

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren’t really public servants.

Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.

It’s easier to run a revolution than a government.

Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis,...

Rights holders, seeing how unpopular their ideas were, headed down a darker path; rather than give up on government help for such schemes, they worked to get them through with limited public debate. New Zealand’s...

Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry...

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side – only hypocrisy and hate.

It’s very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it’s clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.

I wasn’t political in 1984, but I did have a friend in Winnemucca who was a ‘Southern Democrat.’ He was raised in Georgia, and when he moved to Nevada, he was still a Democrat, and...

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates’ philosophy, and I think...

I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach – you may call this Utopia – to make...

There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and...

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that’s as dear to life as breathing.

For most of the world, civil and political rights… come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I’m not a politician.

The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they’re leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it...

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda – whether on the right or left – is flat out wrong.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or making it easier for the less desirable of the two major candidates to...

I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Freedom… Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

You can’t condemn a whole group of people because of the actions of a few.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property in which our contemporary government of criminals aspires to plunder from our compatriots by the means of unconstitutional surveillance.

You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right—creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.

Society is full of varieties, is this possible to make all of them sensitive? Then there will be no politics.

I don’t see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its...

Tolerance is the essential starting point for compassion. That’s why it is so emphasized in our society right now. In a world full of discrimination, prejudice, and marginalization, people need to be taught to tolerate...

She lifted me back into the seat with a wicked grin, and breathed, ‘Just don’t stop talking. Whatever you do, just don’t stop talking,’ and swallowed my manhood. I scrambled desperately through the darkened corners...

An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant...