In the face of severe partisan divisions, a still floundering economy, and two foreign wars, "yes we can" is at risk of becoming this generation's "a chicken in every pot." That is, a punchline rather than a political affirmation.
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If you're a politician or a bureaucrat, this is a great program to make people feel good and to show that you're doing something to make them safer. But obviously, there's a big difference between what's presented to the public and how the program actually works.
I certainly didn't stop playing music just because I wasn't in LA. I was pretty fed-up with the politics of the music business and still am.
Larry Summers is the economic conscience of Rubin. He is the economic half of that team. Rubin had market smarts and the political savvy Larry Summers was, in many ways, the economic mastermind here.
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
Politicians see this as a potentially defining event and they are worried how they are going to be seen. Politicians realize that public opinion could turn on this, just the way it turned on 911.
We don't win by mimicking the profound authoritarianism of those who are plotting against this country. I think it is very worrying that the prime minister has jeopardized our national unity today both in terms of community relations and in terms of consensus politics.
What the primary voters are going to see is that Congressman DeLay has 30 years of leadership in local politics, and the last 10 years nationally. (His opponents) have 30 years of catching up to do over the next six weeks.
This issue has been used like a political football to gain votes or publicity while none of their demands have been met, including clean water.
Now is not the time to play politics, ... Now is the time to do what's right by the American people by developing a budget that puts working families first and that truly allows us to rebuild our economy and make America safe once again.
I don't think we should pay a whit of attention to administration criticisms. Democrats need to ask the hard questions and ignore the political attacks that are destined to come when we ask them.
If they will issue a constitution without our agreement, we will hamper the political process and move to postpone the transitional government. That will mean another year without stability.
the threat assessment, military plan, political option, cost of occupation, and what cost it is to our war on terrorism.
Well, it would have been wrong for anybody who is in a law enforcement office, like attorney general, to take a position of political party boss.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Political leadership is all that's missing to achieve emissions cuts of 30 to 40 percent.
What incentive do they have to repair their tracks now in the face of immunity I submit, virtually none. If you reject this proposal, you are sending a very strong message that the political bodies lying along the railroad are not in favor of them taking the position of not having any responsibility for the mistakes they make in the operation of their systems.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
I wasn't really trying to make a political statement. I wasn't trying to be pro-life or pro-choice. I was just trying to be pro-Nick.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.
I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
I think it's a shrewd strategy, because Bush is giving them enough leeway to see what the political marketplace can bear to see where Democrats and Republicans from very different perspectives can come together around an answer.
It means that they're going to be under a lot of financial pressure in the years ahead. And that's going to put pressure on the entire economy and on the political process.
The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.
It was the summer of 1984. I paid close attention to the conventions, and I was drawn to Reagan. He was four times my age, a different gender and from a different coast, but his message was similar to what I was struggling with. And once you're bitten by the political bug, it's hard to inoculate.
The South won the war. We've already seen a political shift to the South. Business is not far behind. There's better infrastructure, more land and everything is cheaper while the Northeast is expensive with aging infrastructure.
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
The prime minister will meet with the leaders of the opposition parties later today to sort out a common stand on political reform.
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the publics general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy and powerful multinational corporations, members of Congress, the current Presidential Administration including the administrations that preceded it. The news media is being utilized as a political tool of suppression and propaganda by those in power, and propaganda is psychological in nature. Full of half-truths and utter misinformation, its an arrogant and very commercial strategy that is implemented because it appeals to emotions, fear being the main one relentless talk of national security, personal and community safety, can trigger childhood insecurities and indoctrinated views of authority.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
Our goal is to reach out to every Gator on this campus. This campaign is about marking the end of politics as usual.
But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself. Some make a sort of psychological analysis, that the left doesn't want to win, that success means co-optation. All of those things have some merit.
Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.
an unprecedented and overt ... merger of the church and state, of religion and politics.
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
The decision says that local governments can take private property and give it to another entity, if the second is going to upgrade the property in some way. There is no reason why this would not apply to businesses. The only check remaining is the political dynamics of local government. To the extent that businesses do not have political clout, they will also be vulnerable.
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
It's a fantastic achievement. You feel a great sense of industry there, and you get a sense they're looking toward the next challenge. That's to get greater Germany working again. The political will for structural reform seems to be there.
I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
Military action can make sense within the context of a political strategy and political plan. But air strikes as a substitute for policy are a recipe for disaster.
NATO continues to support a political solution which brings an end to the violence in Kosovo,
I vote Libertarian, straight ticket. But otherwise, Kinky Friedman, because he's not a politician, even though he's a liberal. I'll forgive him for that.
There's nothing I did before 'Ohio' that would be in the same category -- and very little since. It's a kind of a political song as well as a feeling song, and it's dated to a particular incident, kinda like 'Rockin' in the Free World.' I just don't write that many of them.
I think the Latino community in San Diego County has been segregated out of the political culture. Even when you have one or two elected officials here, it hasn't made a dent in the overall sense. It is not part of the political culture of this city.
A traffic accident, which gives all signs of an assassination attempt against me, was turned into a political campaign, which will certainly fail.
I think I've heard that one before. But it comes down to the person. Anybody can deliver the line. The question is Can you compartmentalize these issues so they don't consume you And I think Bush's job is more difficult than Clinton's because the questions here go right to the heart of the presidency.