So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.
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We are entering a new phase in the global response to AIDS. I am convinced because of political commitments, because of the money that is now increasing in a big way -- eight billion dollars (6.6 billion euros) this year -- that we are starting to see results. But in order to really reverse the tide of this epidemic we need also to focus more on children, not only adults.
Obviously this is a victory for South Dakota, all of South Dakota, ... I said this earlier and I mean it. I don't care whether you're a Republican or a Democrat or how you voted in the last election. People realized there are some issues that transcend politics, and this is one of them.
For nine months they've been spewing lies and character assassination on Senator Burns. It's all politics.
This thing smells wrong. They should be making sure that there's no hint whatsoever of any political inside deal, any relationship with campaign contributions.
It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
That will leave Karl more time to focus on truly strategic policy at a critical time for the presidency.
... The bottom line here is we want to give the power back to the people, ... Who is fighting us on that Not the general public. The politicians.
I had a political consultant tell me that with my name, she could easily get me elected to the Supreme Court. If I were going to forge a credit card, would I put on a name that called attention to it.
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community no more.
He's the president's alter ego on political and domestic policy,
This is not unlike what is happening at many U.S. ports. It astonishes me that none of the politicians who are so fearful of foreign operations in U.S. ports raised any objections when China, for example, assumed control of their port operation in Los Angeles.
And so it is absolutely the case that you cannot have armed groups ultimately participating in politics with no expectation that they're going to disarm.
There's no doubt there's political pressure on the Fed to do nothing on September 20th. The Fed will allow economics to overrule the politics of the situation.
I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.
FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of restraint's infinite multitude of methods. A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly. Liberty. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either. Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell. She screams whenever monarchs meet, And parliaments as well, To bind the chains about her feet And toll her knell. And when the sovereign people cast The votes they cannot spell, Upon the pestilential blast Her clamors swell. For all to whom the power's given To sway or to compel, Among themselves apportion Heaven And give her Hell. --Blary O'Gary.
Promise Keepers, I believe, is on the right track, and people who fear the political involvement ... I don't think they see Promise Keepers for what it is.
What you're seeing is a frontal assault on business as usual - the politics of insiders using the system to benefit themselves and their friends.
While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.
Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
I knew Sam, but I didn't know he was conservative. I didn't hear a political peep out of him until years later.
It doesn't present any kind of agenda, any politics at all, one way or the other at all. It just says life is not for sissies.
He was brought up in politics. He ran for state's attorney twice and lost both times.
We have had a pattern of increasing the number of coalition forces during periods when there was an expectation that the insurgents and terrorists would like to try to disrupt the political process,
It is very important to do the job well in Beijing, which is the capital and the political and cultural center of the country,
This fight was not about me. It was all about the people of South Dakota and Rapid City who were impacted by the decision. This whole decision was about the merits. It had nothing to do with politics.
I am not entering any political arena. I am a mother who is just wanting to have my daughter home.
China is ready to increase friendly exchanges... and expand bilateral exchanges and cooperation in politics, economy trade, culture and tourism.
They had a project, a very comprehensive social, political plan, aimed at all levels of society, but specifically undermining Fijian political and traditional structures with a view to entrenching Indian influence in Fiji.
Drug Policy czar Barry McCaffrey believes the measures are premature since clinical research to determine the safety of marijuana use by AIDS patients has not yet been established. He also believes supporters of the initiatives have something else in mind. Prejudging that research through a political process would be irresponsible, ... This isn't medicine this is drug legalization.
There was a combination of things that really depressed it. One was Hewlett-Packard's shortfall and we had a sympathetic sell-off using the political environment as a backdrop, ... Ironically, IBM remained the stalwart and it probably gave the notion of s
When you strip away all the political partisanship, we have to remember that government is all about protecting citizens. That didn't happen here.
get serious about producing a political solution ... and to focus urgently on producing an agreement.
I think it will help the government, because (the game) will distract the attention a little, ... Despite the political events, it's also a time to celebrate.
Investors are beginning to see Poland in an unfavorable light and that's because of politics. Bad policy could turn good fundamentals into bad fundamentals.
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
The inevitable upshot is increased voter apathy and disengagement with the political process.
We talked for a couple of hours before we played a note. We didn't talk about music, we talked about life - families, children, issues in the world, politics, so many things. The kind of camaraderie we developed helped make the music what it is. I wanted to find a common ground and connect as people first.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
This was a major sabotage by the political parties because they simply didn't trust something that was new. You simply have to have political parties and their operatives campaigning abroad to stimulate interest and excitement, to convince voters that their candidates are worth it. That's what you do in politics.
When I first read the script, the political side of the story really interested me. I was interested in talking about pharmaceutical companies, and how corporations and government work together,
The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them. (Thomas Eugene
The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.