Whether it is the Enron, Arthur Andersen, Global Crossing, or now the Halliburton and Harken scandals, there is a dangerous intersection between politicians of all stripes, Democrat and Republican, attempting to feed at the trough of business greed,
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At the moment, McCain fits the bill of the type of candidate Republicans are looking for, in light of what's happening to the Bush presidency. He can be a conservative Republican to conservative Republicans, he can be more moderate to independent voters, because of the straight-talk aspect. He fits the profile of what different voters want.
It's important that Bolivia has a stable democracy. Of course we want to guard our interests, we don't want to throw money out the window, but it is more important to take care of political harmony and development.
He's a perfectly fine person, but not someone we can trust to defend our rights, not at all. If that upsets the political establishment, so be it.
There is an underlying positive tone for the dollar which is coming through between the politics of Japan and Germany. The underlying dollar story is interest rates. People are becoming a little more convinced the Fed is going to hike to 4 percent by the end of the year.
The success in this referendum, it isn't how many people are going to say 'yes' and how many people are going to say 'no,' ... The success is that all Iraqis ... found out that the polling station is the way to deal with the political problems in Iraq, to deal with the violence in Iraq.
Politics no interest me. Dem devil business.... Dem a play with peoples minds. Never play with peoples minds.
It is a shame that our grand jury system has been abused by a district attorney pursuing a political agenda. The accusations against Majority Leader DeLay are baseless, and the real concern here is the integrity of our legal system in Travis County, where illegal grand jury leaks have occurred with great regularity.
It's about righting a wrong. Somewhere along the line, someone screwed up. The feeling about the POWs was, 'We owe them.' It's not supposed to be political, but it's kind of hard to review your mistakes.
It was almost like he was putting his name on the ballot next to Kilgore and giving people a chance to have a referendum on his presidency. It was really bad timing for Jerry Kilgore that this election coincided exactly with the low point of the Bush presidency.
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
Actually, what is the political struggle that we witness It is the instinctive struggle of all people toward liberty. And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world Is it not the union of all liberties liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, of labor, of trade In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so Is not liberty the destruction of all despotismincluding, of course, legal despotism Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense of punishing injustice.
There's a lot of nervousness on the political front and that's keeping the buyers out of the market. We've got 50 significant companies reporting results this week - but at this point, bad news is almost good news, because it's so built in to people's expectations.
If the political environment does not change, the outcome of the 2006 elections becomes increasingly a roll of the dice dependent on how the campaigns are run, party and interest group resources and the intensity of base voters to turn out to vote.
Whether you agree or disagree with my brother's politics, a crime such as this should never happen.
I would say that U. S. officials and Iraqi officials are looking for the right people in the Sunni community to talk to in order to ensure that the Sunni Arab community ... becomes part of the political process,
says Price. ''He's more than a musician a spiritual leader, a political leader, and just a leader of human nature around the world.
We will have no option but to take industrial action and commence a political and community campaign to protect jobs in Australia.
This goes beyond bad politics. It's bad policy to appoint an investigator involved in one controversial, racially charged case to investigate another so soon afterwards.
In this regard, one can only note with dismay the evidence of a continuing growth in military expenditures and the flourishing arms trade, while the political and juridical process established by the international community for promoting disarmament is bogged down in general indifference.
Personal History ... I loved the first few chapters where she describes America's wealthy politicians and their inner circles. And the tracing of American politics...
This large operation that used airplanes is sending a signal to parliament and Iraqis that the solution is military and not political.
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.
We can be as tough on crime as we're willing to pay for. That's part of the politics of the matter.
It is thanks also to the political parties as none of them tried to give this political color.
We are unwilling to turn a humanitarian mission into a political dialogue on issues not related to providing relief to the Cuban victims of Hurricane Wilma.
If enacted this year, campaign finance reform would reduce the power of corporations and wealthy individuals in our politics, ... Unfortunately, the special interests and their Republican allies in Congress are fighting to keep these bills from passing.
Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.
What happened is (majority leader) Tom DeLay put an entirely new face on Texas politics. And Ronnie Earle is trying to destroy him for it.
In politics, you have your word and your friends go back on either and you're dead.
Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.
I don't think he's going in there with the attitude of an old-school politician. I think he's getting advice that this isn't the job it used to be.
The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.
We have contributed and will continue to contribute to the political stabilization of the country.
I hope this case begins the end of the political prostitution that seems to have been evident in the state of Illinois, and begins the resurrection of honest government services.
It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.
The chairman is not a government employee. I'm going to be involved in the political activities of our nation as a volunteer.
For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.
Politicians say theyre beefing up our economy. Most dont know beef from pork.
Today's actions by the court are a shining example of why elections matter. When judges far outside the mainstream are nominated and confirmed to public office by anti-choice politicians, women's health and safety are put in the danger.
The idea of 'cronies' has been around for a long time, ... Every president that comes in has a lot of political appointees that they can bring in with them.
This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
We're dealing with someone who is not a person of principle. A person of opportunism. I just think that people are just fed up with that kind of politics. They want to know where people stand and know that people will follow through on their commitments and campaign promises.
There's not a lot of political capital to spend on moving the Legislature the way he wants if they don't want to go.
Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
The people of this state have been begging for a long time for the politicians of this state to run a clean campaign,
My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.
Of course I am frustrated and mad. We condemn this kind of political persecution. They are really targeting us and our parties because they know that we're effective critics of this administration.