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  • Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Book  
    "The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1996.
  • The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

    C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.184, Univ of California Press
  • What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

  • The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.

    "Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns of 'two-tier' force" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.
  • We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

  • Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

    The Illiterate Digest "Warning to Jokers: Lay Off the Prince" (1924)
  • If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

    Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.150, Rowman & Littlefield
  • The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.

    Adolf Hitler (1994). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”
  • The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

    Time   Freedom   Fighting  
    "Shut Down Chick-fil-A Properly" by James Peron, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2012.
  • He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

    Pain   Freedom   Fear  
    Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.1336, e-artnow
  • If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

    Interview with John Pilger on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.
  • Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

    Funny   Life   Change  
    Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing
  • What I have said to my team is that at a point such as this, with 40% adjustment in our currency, it means that Malawians are paying the price. While that is going on, they need to see, us, the commitment on our part, particularly right at the top. The political will needs to go through this with the people, side by side.

    Team   Mean   Commitment  
    "Malawi's head of state: 'Why I'm selling presidential jet'". Interview with Athena Jones, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2012.
  • I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

    “Good Morning America” with Diane Sawyer, www.arabamerica.com. September 24, 2009.
  • Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

  • At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.

    Source: www.rferl.org
  • We need the political will, and that often comes from the will of the people. So if celebrities or personalities can help to educate the people - not influence them, not tell them (what to do) - just tell them the truth about what's happening and let them form their own opinion, that will strengthen them and they will push their politicians.

  • The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

  • Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

    Andrew M. Allison, Willard Cleon Skousen, M. Richard Maxfield, Benjamin Franklin (1982). “The Real Benjamin Franklin”
  • You have climate change and antibiotic resistance which are two of the biggest horses of the apocalypse, and they're basically breathing on our necks, and there's no political will or effort being expended to deal with them.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up.

  • Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

    Funny   Life   Sarcastic  
  • In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

  • Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.

    "Brothers in Arms. How do trade unions worldwide reflect on the global economy?", www.theglobalist.com. April 25, 2001.
  • No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.

    House of Commons Debate, publications.parliament.uk. November 26, 2009.
  • U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.

    UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. December 3, 2012.
  • That Iran is willing to threaten Israel is wrong[. . . .] We pose no threat and if we are conducting nuclear research and development we are no threat to Israel. We have no intention of aggression against any country. [. . .] Today we announce to you that the political will of Iran is aimed at the negotiated settlement of the case and we dont want to aggravate the situation in our region[. . . .] We know that this issue can be settled in a constructive dialogue and we welcome that.

    Country   Israel   Iran  
  • Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

    "American Voters Suffer Learned Helplessness" by Andrea Chalupa, bigthink.com. September 7, 2012.
  • We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

    Twitter post from May 06, 2016
  • Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.

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