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What it came down to was a search not for the most talent, the greatest brilliance, but for the fewest black marks, the fewest objections. The man who had made the fewest enemies in an era when forceful men espousing good causes had made many enemies: the Kennedys were looking for someone who made very small waves. They were looking for a man to fill the most important Cabinet post, a job requiring infinite qualities of intelligence, wisdom and sophistication, a knowledge of both this country and the world, and they were going at it as presidential candidates had often filled that other most crucial post, the Vice-Presidency, by choosing someone who had offended the fewest people. Everybody's number-two choice. ~ David Halberstam
Political Expediency quotes by David Halberstam
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency, ~ Shirley Chisholm
Political Expediency quotes by Shirley Chisholm
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Political Expediency quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt
If, of course, there is neither freedom nor any moral law based on freedom, but only a state in which everything that happens or can happen simply obeys the mechanical workings of nature, politics would mean the art of utilising nature for the government of men, and this would constitute the whole of practical wisdom; the concept of right would then be only an empty idea. But if we consider it absolutely necessary to couple the concept of right with politics, or even to make it a limiting condition of politics, it must be conceded that the two are compatible. And I can indeed imagine a moral politician, i.e. someone who conceives of the principles of political expediency in such a way that they can co-exist with morality, but I cannot imagine a political moralist, i.e. one who fashions his morality to suit his own advantage as a statesman. ~ Immanuel Kant
Political Expediency quotes by Immanuel Kant
I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency. ~ Harold Ford, Jr.
Political Expediency quotes by Harold Ford, Jr.
The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those. ~ Eric Cantor
Political Expediency quotes by Eric Cantor
We are attempting to build, within our movement, non-exploitative ways of relating to one another based on trust and concern rather than political expediency. We have serious personal/political intentions in breaking down hierarchical and elitist structures, and for experimenting with leaderless groups and collective decision making. In dealing with the media these revolutionary principles and practices are destroyed. The media works to create leaders, it knows no way of relating to us on our own terms. Being interviewed and presented as a leader is a real ego trip
the media brings out the most counter-revolutionary traits in people. Elitism, dissension and division are the ultimate results. ~ Nancy Ferro
Political Expediency quotes by Nancy Ferro
It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream. ~ Stephen King
Political Expediency quotes by Stephen King
I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. ~ Jimmy Carter
Political Expediency quotes by Jimmy Carter
A traitor only becomes one if their plot is discovered. The imposition of guilt means nothing to those who feign loyalty. More skilled conspirators wield treason as a clinical tool of regime change and political expediency. Then, with their own hand writing history, such traitors may wear the clothes of patriots. ~ Stewart Stafford
Political Expediency quotes by Stewart Stafford
The people in this country are in furious rages at each other after the last vote, she said, and the government we've got has done nothing to assuage it and instead is using people's rage for its own political expediency. Which is a grand old fascist trick if ever I saw one, and a very dangerous game to play. And what's happening in the United States is directly related, and probably financially related. ~ Ali Smith
Political Expediency quotes by Ali Smith
Christian political theory does not adhere to a passive conservatism. nor is it enamored of progress. It is conservative in principles, but progressive in application of these principles to the ever-changing circumstances. In the struggle between the passionate urge for limitless freedom and conservative order, Christian political theory stands on the side of order. In the struggle between man's longing for freedom and dehumanizing absolute power, it will fight for freedom. In the struggle between social justice and reactionary defense of the vested interests of selfish classes, it will unite with justice. Faced by the choice between the dignity of the human person and political expediency, it will defend the dignity of the human person. ~ Heinrich A Rommen
Political Expediency quotes by Heinrich A Rommen
I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once again the protector of our liberties, not the distributor of gifts and privilege. Government should uphold and not undermine those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded-religion, education and, above all, family. Government cannot be clergyman, teacher and patriot. It government is our servant, beholden to us. ~ Ronald Reagan
Political Expediency quotes by Ronald Reagan
The undermining of Christian faith, systematically pursued by Western cultural and political elites, does not lead to some sort of secular Utopia with its own "neutral" morality, but to the rise of religious beliefs other than Christianity, which will bring their own – often opposite - moral values.
On the clean slate of atheism anything can be written, even sharia law. ~ Giorgio Roversi
Political Expediency quotes by Giorgio Roversi
The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."
― Plato, Plato's Republic ~ Plato
Political Expediency quotes by Plato
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness. ~ Pablo Picasso
Political Expediency quotes by Pablo Picasso
I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision. ~ George W. Bush
Political Expediency quotes by George W. Bush
We now have political chaos. We've got parties in Ireland saying they want to merge with Northern Ireland. You've got parties in Scotland saying you want to leave the U.K. You've got the Spanish government saying it would like to take ownership of Gibraltar which is a British overseas territory. So that - just the politics of this is a mess. ~ Tim Harford
Political Expediency quotes by Tim Harford
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same. ~ David Horowitz
Political Expediency quotes by David Horowitz
Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If you add UC Berkeley + 1984 the other side of the = is "new historian" meaning that I studied with and was influenced by those who were interested in how the personal shaped the political (and literary), how science and literature might interact, and what the body got to do with it. ~ Laura Mullen
Political Expediency quotes by Laura Mullen
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. ~ Hans Kung
Political Expediency quotes by Hans Kung
The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge. It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitering of a bishop, and the removing hum from the Presbyterian shoulders that will make us a happy nation; no, if other things as great in the Church, and in the rule of life both economical and political, be not looked into and reformed, we have looked so long upon the blaze that Zwinglius and Calvin have beaconed up to us, that we are stark blind. ~ John Milton
Political Expediency quotes by John Milton
I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus. ~ Victor Davis Hanson
Political Expediency quotes by Victor Davis Hanson
I've come to think that one reason for the oppressive predictability of polemical essays can be found in today's polarized social and political climate. To paraphrase Emerson: "If I know your party, I anticipate your argument." Not merely about politics but about everything. Clearly this acrimonious state of affairs is not conducive to writing essays that display independent thought and complex perspectives. Most of us open magazines, newspapers, and websites knowing precisely what to expect. Many readers apparently enjoy being members of the choir. In our rancorously partisan environment, conclusions don't follow from premises and evidence but precede them. ~ John Jeremiah Sullivan
Political Expediency quotes by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Nichts kommt von selbst. Und nur wenig ist von Dauer. Darum - besinnt Euch auf Eure Kraft und darauf, dass jede Zeit eigene Antworten will und man auf ihrer Höhe zu sein hat, wenn Gutes bewirkt werden soll."

("Nothing happens automatically. And only few things last. Therefore - be mindful of your strength, and of the fact that every era wants its own answers, and you have to be up to its speed in order to be able to do good.")

Message to the Socialist International Congress in Berlin, September 15, 1992 ~ Willy Brandt
Political Expediency quotes by Willy Brandt
In the hands of corrupt citizens democracy gives rise to a corrupt nation. ~ Abhijit Naskar
Political Expediency quotes by Abhijit Naskar
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. ~ David Lloyd George
Political Expediency quotes by David Lloyd George
What we have said and - and - and with which I concur is that we should use every diplomatic and political vehicle that's available to us to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear capability state. ~ Mitt Romney
Political Expediency quotes by Mitt Romney
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. ~ Meg Greenfield
Political Expediency quotes by Meg Greenfield
Heydrich's life therefore offers a uniquely privileged, intimate and organic perspective on some of the darkest aspects of Nazi rule, many of which are often artificially divided or treated separately in the highly specialized literature on the Third Reich: the rise of the SS and the emergence of the Nazi police state; the decision-making processes that led to the Holocaust; the interconnections between anti-Jewish and Germanization policies; and the different ways in which German occupation regimes operated across Nazi-controlled Europe. On a more personal level, it illustrates the historical circumstances under which young men from perfectly 'normal' middle-class backgrounds can become political extremists determined to use ultra-violence to implement their dystopian fantasies of radically transforming the world. ~ Robert Gerwarth
Political Expediency quotes by Robert Gerwarth
Bill Clinton was friendly and charming with just about everyone besides Hillary. He always seemed to want to give his company extra time. He was very generous that way. Like him or not, share his political ideas or not, find yourself in the same room with him, and you are hooked. You can't help but like him. But that was not Hillary. She was clearly all business, 24/7. Her private leadership style was based on pure fear and loathing - and I never saw her that turn off. Even in the president's presence, Mrs. Clinton operated at far greater than arm's length - a cheerless grifter always on her scheming way to someone or something else more important than the person directly in front of her. ~ Gary J. Byrne
Political Expediency quotes by Gary J. Byrne
What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By what means shall its inchoate and amorphous estate be organized into effective political action relevant to present social needs and opportunities? What has happened to the public in the century and a half since the theory of political democracy was urged with such assurance and hope? ~ John Dewey
Political Expediency quotes by John Dewey
Last names ... they were like word parasites. They attached to people in strange ways, moved across cultural and political lines, traveled the world and reattached to others, certainly at whim and seemingly at random.
Why didn't anybody else see how creepy last names were? They labeled a person as coming from a particular class or geographical area or linked their identity to another person, as if someone's identity had no merit on its own unless it had latched on to another. ~ Thea Harrison
Political Expediency quotes by Thea Harrison
Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail. ~ Albert J. Nock
Political Expediency quotes by Albert J. Nock
Pragmatic political figures are sometimes called "moderate" or "middle of the road" because of their willingness to compromise. But the term "moderate" gives the false impression that there is a linear political continuum, with people distributed along it. The continuum metaphor hides the major role played by moral systems and the fact that pragmatic politicians in America are usually pragmatic versions of either liberals or conservatives. Not ~ George Lakoff
Political Expediency quotes by George Lakoff
Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file out the forms or answer the phones? ~ George W. Bush
Political Expediency quotes by George W. Bush
In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs. ~ Noam Chomsky
Political Expediency quotes by Noam Chomsky
The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal ... Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life. ~ Kim Jong Il
Political Expediency quotes by Kim Jong Il
It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All that can here be affirmed is that what the religion of those two men lacked in theological details it made up in greatness. Their minds were born with a love of great principles ... There are few instances in which a mind great enough to reach great principles in politics has been satisfied with a fanatical religion ... It must not be asked for Washington and Lincoln that, having reached greatness in political principles, they should have loved littleness in piety. ~ David Swing
Political Expediency quotes by David Swing
I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government. ~ Jesse Ventura
Political Expediency quotes by Jesse Ventura
Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content. ~ Melvin Van Peebles
Political Expediency quotes by Melvin Van Peebles
The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students. ~ Dick Gephardt
Political Expediency quotes by Dick Gephardt
The kingdom's advance is set in motion by the Galilean march out of the graveyard. We should then be the last people on earth to skulk back in fear or apathy. And we ought also to be the last people on earth to uncritically laud any political leader or movement as though this were what we've been waiting for. We need leaders and allies, but we do not need a Messiah. That job is filled, and he's feeling fine. ~ Russell D. Moore
Political Expediency quotes by Russell D. Moore
The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us. ~ Richard Trumka
Political Expediency quotes by Richard Trumka
In a world in which the personal is widely believed to be the political, the sheep of toleration soon turns into the wolf that demands acceptance, indeed, admiration. ~ Kenneth Minogue
Political Expediency quotes by Kenneth Minogue
The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a gigantic financial-political fraud, the principal beneficiaries of which are the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose principal victims are the German people - but not their leaders - and the entire Palestinian people. ~ Robert Faurisson
Political Expediency quotes by Robert Faurisson
You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world. ~ Abhijit Naskar
Political Expediency quotes by Abhijit Naskar
A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word. ~ Holly Near
Political Expediency quotes by Holly Near
We will keep a commitment to pluralism and not discriminate for or against Methodist or Mormons or Muslims or good people with no faith at all. ~ George W. Bush
Political Expediency quotes by George W. Bush
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast majority of blacks back in their place. ~ Michelle Alexander
Political Expediency quotes by Michelle Alexander
A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. ~ Harry Truman
Political Expediency quotes by Harry Truman
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power. ~ Eduardo Paes
Political Expediency quotes by Eduardo Paes
The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion. ~ Bertrand De Jouvenel
Political Expediency quotes by Bertrand De Jouvenel
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Political Expediency quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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