But my reason for quoting it is of a rare example of the term "politically correct" apparently being used with approval.
In 2010, introducing a report that documented some of the regime's practices, a senior official at Human Rights Watch described Singapore as "the textbook example of a politically repressive state".
The most striking example of a politically driven change in artistic forms comes from the Amarna period, where figures were radically altered to conform to Akhenaten's revolutionary religious ideas.
Many researchers agree that while there is rarely a moment of epiphany, there is typically a trigger of some kind to accelerate radicalization — for example, the politically related killing of a friend or relative.
The Brink's robbery endures in the national memory as a powerful example of a politically motivated act gone violently awry.
A more obvious example of a politically motivated project to diversify EU gas supplies is the so-called Southern Gas Corridor.
Including video and audio samples from Rose's "My Jeans," O'Donnell's television advertisement, and homemade coven-like videos ripped from YouTube, "Am I Evil?" is a prime example of the critically sharp but never politically obvious output that's compiled in the DVD work The Urgency. .
Sadly, Mr Khodorkovsky's plight is far from the only example of corrupt and politically malleable justice in Russia witness the death last year in pre-trial custody of Sergei Magnitsky, the employee of an American investor who had dared to accuse the Russian police of massive corruption.
Think, for example, of how politically connected Democratic women would react to Kennedy: with some pride and satisfaction, because a woman kept the seat (currently held, of course, by Hillary Clinton); but a lot of them would also say, It shoulda been Ms. A or Ms. B or…me.
