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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950New Lamps for Old (1893), 7 August 1893
It’s traumatizing for me to come to Washington during a Republican administration because I don’t have any Republican clothes.
Sharon Stoneborn 1958The Washington Post (June 20, 2001)
- Clever Jabs
I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.
Oswald Mosley1896–1980Letter to The Times (26 April, 1968), p. 11.
Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people’s employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.
Oswald Mosley1896–1980Winston Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, had returned Britain to the gold standard and Mosley believed this would lead to unemployment, quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 143.
- Clever Jabs
- Economics
I may be only a “fish and chip shop lady”, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.
Pauline Hansonborn 1954Maiden Speech as the Member for Oxley (1996)
- Clever Jabs
- Economics
Politics is like boxing — you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi Amin1925–2003Interview, African summit talks, Angola, January 1976. Reported p.A8, Palm Beach Post, January 12, 1976.
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that [is] it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not before.
Rahm Emanuelborn 1959Interview to the Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2008.
I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
Caitlyn Jennerborn 1949Speech at the University of Pennsylvania (February 2016).
Isolation is not insulation. In fact when America has isolated herself, threats have only grown.
Kamala Harrisborn 1964From a speech at the Munich Security Conference (16 February 2024), as cited in “Kamala Harris seeks to reassure allies at Munich Security Conference”, The Washington Post (16 February 2024).
- America
When young children see someone who looks like them running for office, they see themselves and what they can be, unburdened by what has been.
Kamala Harrisborn 1964Twitter 2020; as quoted by Singh, Rishika “Coconuts for Kamala Harris: Why the Internet is memeing the US VP amid speculations of her candidacy”. The Indian Express. (2024-07-07).
- Children
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Keynote address, Democratic National Convention, Boston (27 July 2004)
- America
- Race
To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Brighton (10 October 1980)
- Decisions
And the Congress will push me to raise taxes and I’ll say no. And they’ll push, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push again, and I’ll say, to them, “Read my lips: no new taxes.”
George H. W. Bush1924–2018Speech accepting the Republican nomination, New Orleans (18 August 1988)
The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
Harold Macmillan1894–1986Speech to the Parliament of South Africa, Cape Town (3 February 1960)
- Change
For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
Ted Kennedy1932–2009Address to the Democratic National Convention, New York (12 August 1980)
- Hope