Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring.
I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell, so I am asking the members of the press to send a mayday call all over the world.
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically – that’s not how he was raised – he cared that it was the right thing to do.
People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people’s perceptions are.
Why didn’t we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?
I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.
The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.
I think Black Lives Matter has some really thuggish elements in it. Look – at the risk of being incredibly politically incorrect, but I guess that’s my job – I think that all lives matter. Not least black lives.
In my fiction, I pursue this idea of intimacy, but also – philosophically, politically – I just feel like that’s the interesting question for me. How much can we share with other people? I’m not interested in human individuality; I don’t even know what that means.
The financial instability and sometimes insecurity that families feel, deeply motivates how they respond politically.
We can’t be politically correct – right or left – in the war on terrorism. Period.
In the Independent Group, we have the seeds of a new political movement that can reinvent our broken politics and provide a home to people who are politically homeless.
Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other.
It’s important for me, politically, to see that theater isn’t just about the powerful.
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
Labour’s approach is not about what is politically right, it is about what is right for the country.
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.
Now they’re getting so politically correct you can’t even stick your tongue out at somebody.
It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
To me, saying you’re not a feminist should be like saying you’re a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.
Ted Cruz cut his teeth politically in Texas on disrupting the Republican establishment, and Texans love a fighter. It’s the same thing that has made me successful is that when people look at me, they see a fighter, somebody who takes on the establishment, who isn’t intimidated, and is willing to kick through doors.
The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
I’m not going to allow myself to be pushed politically.
My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn’t been for girls.
If you’re an evil company who’s casting minorities to be in your commercial to get the politically correct card, it’s like putting a band-aid over a bigger problem. But I think it’s an incredible start.
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?
From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
Millennials are much more informed than they get credit for, and many are more politically knowledgeable than older generations.
The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.
Again and again as president, Reagan let it slip that he concurred with fundamentalists’ belief that the world would end in a fiery Armageddon. This did not hurt him politically. The kind of people offended by such talk had already largely abandoned the Republican Party.
But, in the end, even a song that’s as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn’t get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan’s love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.
I prospered very quickly. Very quickly, I became politically empowered. I was running my own business.
My role isn’t to be politically smart. My role is to do what’s right under the constitution. And if that’s politically unpopular, so be it.
I don’t care whether I am politically correct or not when I tweet.
One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak out politically – to not be constrained by a non-partisan organization.
Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world’s smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others.
The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression – book banning in its many modern forms – is a matter of course in the entertainment industry, especially when the underlying product is declared politically incorrect or runs contrary to the interests of Hollywood’s political altar, the Democratic Party.
The young people of India will build a strong and powerful nation, a nation that is politically mature and economically strong, a nation whose people enjoy both a high quality of life as well as justice.
I’ve found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It’s sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.
French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.
The MCU, by definition, has quite a politically charged underpinning.
Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
I don’t believe that we should never not talk to people we don’t agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it’s the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.
I think I’m pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.
I come from a place that is very politically sophisticated and progressive. New Zealand was the first place to give women the right to vote.
Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.
What I argued in ‘The Great Divide’ is that societies can’t function without trust, both politically and economically.
Even when there’s disagreements politically or among veterans or among advocacy organizations, let’s agree to do that respectfully and show care and compassion to those who have served us.
From the moment Donald Trump was inaugurated, Washington Democrats have been myopically focused on politically targeting his administration and impeaching him.
We’re so politically correct; we take things so seriously.
I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.
I don’t know when I’m going to have time to be politically active.
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
I have tried to help build a framework that recaptures the First Amendment as a principle to empower all Americans, politically and personally, through access to plentiful, diverse communications spaces.
There is no music that can’t be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It’s not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.
