The politically correct illiberal left far too often side with the extremists.
The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.
It may be politically incorrect to say, but it is nevertheless true that a terrorist today is exponentially more likely to be a Muslim than a Christian.
The audience is an absolutely critical part of ‘Question Time’ and selecting that audience is a big and very important job every week. What we need to do every week without fail is make the audience politically representative of the picture across the nation.
Worldwide, our young generation shares the same issues socially and politically.
When you’re elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn’t say, ‘Unless it’s politically uncomfortable.’
Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
Culturally, politically, everywhere you look… Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.
Occasionally, you’ll get a ‘District 9,’ a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
I haven’t always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I’ve never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?
I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would – they may not agree with me politically on all the things I’m saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they’ll have a good laugh throughout the film.
Embarking upon war is always dangerous for national leaders because it makes them more than ever at the mercy of events. When domestic opinion is acutely divided, however, war can be politically lethal for its makers.
It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.
Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to ‘family values.’
The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy. I don’t think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.
Our lives are politically wound.
My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I was allowed to stay up late was to attend a demonstration.
Musicians are, by and large, not the most politically savvy crew.
We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise.
When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture… they’ve had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.
I think stutterers are funny. And I know it’s rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they’re funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
Respectfully, ‘Awkward Black Girl’ was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
As an actor, you may do things that aren’t politically correct. Unless you’re an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don’t do the good, bad, and the ugly, we’re not going to progress.
I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what’s going on in the world and to be politically active.
The way people deal with me – they’ll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone’s so worried about what they’re saying to everyone else, that they don’t talk very much.
We need to have a grown-up conversation about what kind of system do we need, both politically and legally and culturally and economically, that will stop this ridiculous, outrageous harming that we’re doing to ourselves and the planet.
I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.
Very often when we talk about war, conflict or terrorism, we talk about it very politically. We forget that there are people involved.
I think we have great personalities in tennis, but I think they don’t dare anymore expressing their emotions and expressing who they are. It’s all about being politically correct all the time.
I think I’m gradually becoming a more politically aware person.
There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we’re probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.
Israel’s creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.
I want immigration reform to come into fruition, and I want it to be comprehensive, and I want it to have a path to citizenship, and I want to be involved politically every day.
Politics has always been personal for me. You know, growing up, I was in a very politically conscious household. We engaged with intellectuals and artists and academics from around the world who were thinking critically about politics and the intersection of politics and public life.
I’m concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.
You cannot be politically correct in a war.
I was raised in a home where we grew up where we discussed issues. I’ve always been really politically aware. My wife and four kids are very aware. They make me more attuned to a lot of things I would not think about. Especially women’s issues.
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
It’s not politically incorrect to say you’re Republican or conservative.
Around 2008 was a really special time culturally. There were a lot of cool things going on in music, in fashion, politically. It was a really hopeful time and a really creative time.
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don’t care to make.
In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.
Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized Americans, we should at least have the decency to hear them out.
The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, ‘Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.’ I’m a finance major and always intended to go into business.
Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.
I have no doubt that Glenn Kessler is a nice guy, but the job of ‘fact’ ‘checking’ the Washington Post’s ally Joe Biden will not rest with anyone so politically biased in his favor. It just won’t.
I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.’s disposal for some very risky missions. But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.
Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I’m in a position where I just want to feel like I’m saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people’s projects. But I don’t do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.
In general, I think it’s an advantage politically to keep people guessing.
Democrats and Republicans agree on most of a unified, politically viable, and workable immigration reform package. Both parties agree that border security is a key part of any strategy.
The Real World’ perfectly captured the politically correct, multicultural zeitgeist of the 1990s, and it was exhilarating to be at the center of a pop culture phenomenon.
I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct – sometimes you have to name the name. You can’t hide it. Politeness is good if it’s not hiding the truth.
I think, politically, I’m pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work.
Bob Marley was one of my favourite artists. He sang politically conscious lyrics, yet he sang love songs, too.
