When a politician mentions God half a dozen times in a speech, it's to appropriate for his campaign the name God. He's suggesting that God has endorsed the ticket and given permission to have His name used in promotional material in exchange for certain considerations, like school prayer. There are lots of cheap tricks used in political campaigns, and evoking God's name is one of them.
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All 24 of these young men and women have reputations for intelligence, thoughtfulness, and the ability to work effectively across party lines, ... The common denominator is that they are among the young officials most likely to achieve even higher positions of public responsibility in the years ahead. They truly represent America's next generation of political leaders.
Frankly, the experience is you can't trust a politician. They drink the water in Washington, and the disease sets in.
I think they're blown out of proportion. It's not about what he did or didn't do, it's about politics. As long as he gets the job done, what do I care
The twentieth century will be remembered chiefly, not as an age of political conflicts and technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the health of the whole human race as a practical objective.
There will be no room for the voices of reason. There will be paralysis in the political process for the next 10 years.
Iraq is a miracle -- having a psychopathic dictator to a situation where at least we have a political process going on was something that could have taken 30 years.
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here Yugoslavia to play chess and nothing else.
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honestgood will exert upon events in the political field.
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.
WOZA was started to give Zimbabwean women a voice and platform with which to exercise their rights. At this time in Zimbabwe, where things are very tough economically, socially, politically we felt that women were bearing the brunt of that crisis and should have the loudest voice in shouting out and holding the political leaders accountable for what they've unleashed.
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
Politics has become entertainment.
In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
Sharon gave Israelis a sense of security and unity. He was the prime instigator of the settlement movement and the prime mover to rectify the damage it caused. His nickname 'Bulldozer' best describes his role in the military and politics, a non-ideological aggressive doer.
Justice Scalia, Congress did not pick on the parties. The party and the candidates are one in the same. Political parties wield enormous power and should be subject to regulation,
It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi
When Sonny came to Congress, I looked at him as just another Hollywood politician, ... Working together on the Judiciary Committee, I came to admire and respect him.
The military settlement goes hand-in-hand with a political one. If one agreement is reached and implemented, it naturally encourages the sides to take the next step.
deeply concerned about continued reports of political violence, internal displacement of the population, the activities of armed militias unchecked by the government and police action that have violated basic political rights and freedoms.
It's a world-changing event when it occurs, ... It reaches beyond health. It affects economies, cultures, politics and prosperity not to mention human life, counted by the millions.
TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
The politics are just something we'll have to worry about another day,
We are receiving reports from Nepal about the arrest of leaders of political parties as well as human rights and civil society activists.
So many have threatened to fast unto death, but no one has died so far. I don't think the clergy should get involved in politics like this.
A lot of people are engaging in political posturing ahead of the midterm elections, but it's not clear that a lot of them are willing to do what it takes to actually help consumers.
We had a great conversation over the course of about an hour, ... In fact, we talked about his start in politics when he was about my age when he worked for Willis Smith. He talked about the Willis Smith primary in 1950 like it was yesterday. It was a wonderful display of his long history and knowledge.
We want the outcome to be that they're on the wrong side of the politics as well as the wrong side of history and American values.
The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.
I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.
It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.
What the Israeli public has lost today is the unprecedented degree of optimism, with the only person who could carry out unpopular historic decisions incapacitated. You don't see any figure of his status with the courage, the political acumen and the domestic strength to carry out such decisions. The whole public was waiting for Sharon's last act.
I hope ... I will be able to rally the Arab nations, the European Union, the United Nations and others around the proposition that we need to get to a cease-fire and get to a political discussion as soon as possible, ... Meet the Press.
This is a mistake and a sort of political gamble more than being a wise move.
Obviously he was bitter at Calzaghe and the German officials when he thought he won. The reason he has not fought is because it was a political thing. (Lacy) is quite right -- Robin Reid would not come over (to the U.S.) for the paycheck. He is coming over to win a world championship.
Many felt the need to reinforce cultural relations to help get over this. This was a strong feeling, that culture could transcend what was taking place in politics.
The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
They see the system there to be manipulated so that they can use it to climb the political ladder, ... Meanwhile, Doolittle's got a dam in his district that's been authorized for 20 years and he can't get a dime for it. He is that inept. This is a major reason we want redistricting.
Politics makes estranged bedfellows.
The Founding Fathers were careful to distinguish representative republicanism from direct democracy. Alexander Hamilton, for example, endorsed the former but condemned the latter. ...the records of the ratification conventions were not verbatim transcriptions. It has been observed, by an honorable gentleman, that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position in politics is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny their figure, deformity. When they assembled, the field of debate presented an ungovernable mob, not only incapable of deliberation, but prepared for every enormity.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage it is useless to expect solutions in a political compaign.
It's a political game, not simply an economic agreement. The Russian government is using this as blackmail.