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" High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power. "

Joseph Stiglitz

Power

Politics

Political

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" It is always better to tax bad things than good things. "

" Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they get more. But then you look at the people who are at the top, and you realize they're not the people who have transformed our economy, our society. "

" I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color. "

" The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. "

Christopher Hitchens

" I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love. "

" Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. "

William O. Douglas

Free

Performance

" Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

Choosing

Politics

Between

" All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. "

" You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. "

" War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. "

" The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues. "

Marianne Williamson

" Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. "

" I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics. "

" I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics. "

" I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong. "

" The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault. "

" If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval. "

" Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics. "

" Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. "

" Voting is a civic sacrament. "

" American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean. "

David Ignatius

Mean

Story

" In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. "

" Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better. "

" When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality. "

" Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. "

" I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics. "

" Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff. "

" The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. "

" Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. "

" For Obama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement - unilaterally abrogated by Trump - was part of the 'pivot to Asia,' a re-assertion of the role of America in that part of the world. "