Ideological Quotes

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(asked by Dee Dee Myers if he thought it was risky for his career to be identified with a particular political party) Unequivocally. Absolutely. And I think that`s why, you know, actually, people say, "Well, you see all these celebrities". To my mind, you see very, very few. Most feel like, and probably correctly so, that to be identified with one side of the ideological fence or other risks alienating a segment of your audience that may like your movies, may want to buy your tickets, and in fact, may make it more difficult for them to suspend their disbelief when they go see you in a movie because they have you closely identified with something else. For me, part of that is already compromised, and it`s also something that`s interesting enough for me, and I don`t care quite so much about that kind of image that I`m able to do it. But I think a lot of people shy away from it, and many celebrities you see who`ve gone out there, tried to be active, have gotten pretty beaten down, you know? And so I think there is a risk, yes.

- Ben Affleck

(to Dee Dee Myers, when asked how people react to his campaigning for candidates he supports) Well, I mean, to be perfectly honest, probably the most effective things that celebrities do for political candidates is raise money. You know, that`s something that you can do. And unlike, say, fund-raisers sponsored by -- you know, engineered by insurance companies or oil companies, at least what you can say for celebrities is they`re not expecting, you know, deregulation of their industry in return. So that`s one of things that I`m, I`ve been able to do and to try to help them do it. Other than that, you know, I`ve lived this sort of strange, sometimes unpleasant, but mostly very lucky life that`s involved lately a lot of media attention. And one of the things that feels good to me to do is to try to steer that in a direction of something more significant and at least be -- try to create some political dialogue. And that`s satisfying. Some people react to me kindly, and others don`t. That`s sort of the nature of politics." (Myers follows up: "Do you think it`s kind of a risk for your career as movie star to get in bed with one party?") "Unequivocally. Absolutely. And I think that`s why, you know, actually, people say, Well, you see all these celebrities. To my mind, you see very, very few. Most feel like, and probably correctly so, that to be identified with one side of the ideological fence or other risks alienating a segment of your audience that may like your movies, may want to buy your tickets, and in fact, may make it more difficult for them to suspend their disbelief when they go see you in a movie because they have you closely identified with something else. For me, part of that is already compromised, and it`s also something that`s interesting enough for me, and I don`t care quite so much about that kind of image that I`m able to do it. But I think a lot of people shy away from it, and many celebrities you see who`ve gone out there, tried to be active, have gotten pretty beaten down, you know? And so I think there is a risk, yes." (July 27, 2004, quoted in the MSNBC Transcripts)

- Ben Affleck

It`s not an issue per say, but I would urge people to help create an atmosphere where they don`t see this complete ideological divide.

- David Cross

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

- Ani Difranco

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that`s not what any of us should want from our judges.

- Charles Schumer

So it can be political unacceptable even if the tax loss isn`t that great. This is political and ideological.

- David Perry

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

- Nick Clooney

He has portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favorable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards and responsibility for the treatment of the Jews, ... The charges which I have found substantially true include the charges that Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated history evidence.

- Charles Gray

The ABA does not, and we will not, protect the interests of any political party or faction, nor the interests of any ideological or interest group.

- Michael Greco

This is a striking consensus across the political and ideological landscape. It reveals that teachers on the front lines feel ignored on many issues directly affecting the success of their students.

- Gary Allen

We have failed to present lower taxes in a broader economic context, preferring to make an ideological argument about the size of the state, instead of an economic argument about Britain`s ability to compete in the world.

- David James

You simply can`t have 90 percent of email and phone and fax traffic coming into a newspaper ombudsman from just one ideological perspective.

- David Brock

The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.

- John Fiske

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

- Steve Forbes

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.

- Bill Moyers

I think it`s always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it`s very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

- Ahmard Hall

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

- Alain Senderens

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

- Alison Marquiss

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.

- Allan Ramsay

The ideological battle and the power struggle between the two blocks plunged a substantial number of African countries into armed civil conflicts.

- Amitabh Ray

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

- Amitabh Ray

Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.

- Amy Coleman

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

- Andre Johnson

For too long the U.S. military`s leadership has been ignored and stifled by a White House motivated by its own political and ideological agenda.

- Andre Mamed

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

- Andrew K. Reese