Iran’s continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran’s leaders.

provoking political violence on a wider scale.

It’s sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not...

The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties...

I’m a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there’s a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate – which is why Mitt Romney’s political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere...

Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn’t usually some...

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to...

Judicial activism, by definition, is a term applied to judges who render decisions with which you disagree.

Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That’s because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.

Discretion is a polite word for hypocrisy.Tea Party Teddy

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. – John Adams

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

What a country of lazy shits, with fucking hypocritical politicians claiming that people actually wanted to work if they could. Norwegians voted for the Socialist Party because it made it a human right to shirk...

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don’t really comprehend.

In this, then, lies their power of understanding–understanding, without words, what is authentic or inauthentic. Thus it was the grimaces, the histrionisms, the false gestures and, above all, the false tones and cadences of the...

You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political – what you need is the will to do it.

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.

Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)

The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It’s a circle.

Foreign policy – dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation – will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.

INDECISION NOW!’ isn’t a battle cry that’s going to rouse anybody’s blood. But I sometimes wonder if it isn’t the sanest one.

We need to focus every inch of our being on climate change, because if we fail to do so than all our achievements and progress have been for nothing and all that will remain of...

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by...

On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan’s political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

I make a film – and once I’ve made it, everyone comes along and says ‘Ah! This is a film that’s political, or social’ , or whatever. But I’m not telling the story that they...

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

The Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly said that America is not at war with Islam. And Republicans need to be vocal about condemning anyone, in America or abroad, who seeks to lump all Muslims...

Improvising political dialogue is not easy.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time...

I’d love to say that I could write political songs, but I don’t feel clued-up enough.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your...

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

I expect that in 40 years’ time I’ll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

If the Palestinian people really suffered a nakba, it was largely of their own making — and that of their grand mufti.

I think that the memory of Armenia’s genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. ‘Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

And then the other guy will look really sheepish, and mumble that, okay, maybe he tried to make a run for it, and maybe he took a drunken swing at the arresting officer, and maybe...