The secretary emphasized our conviction that the people of Hong Kong should determine the pace and scope of political reform in accordance with the Basic Law.
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The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.
While we are conscious of the view that further confidence needs to be established, we also know that time alone is not enough trust will not build itself in the absence of positive engagement by all parties. Everyone in Northern Ireland is aware of the dangers of a political vacuum.
I've visited as one citizen up to now, as well as a politician. I'd like to keep this stance in the future.
It wasn't a legal battle. What we had to use was public sentiment, public relations and politics. It was a discussion where one side had all the power, but the other side had a tremendous amount of good will. That's what you fought back with.
This is a political and social triumph as well as a union triumph and shows that our struggle has not been in vain.
We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule Don't decide what you don't have to decide. That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
It's been a long time since a visit to America stopped being an infallible formula for strengthening the reputation of European politicians. In the last decade, however, that contact with the American ally can result in at least as many headaches as it does advantages.
Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.
There needs to be a transfer of funds between the candidate and the political party. In this case that did not occur.
If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else
Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.
The era of the political was one of anomie crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.
Political opposition to the Bank of Japan ending its policy has clearly been removed. With the government's support, the central bank is now beset with the overall responsibility to ensure the economy keeps expanding after shifting its policy.
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is trying to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. (J.
If you listen to the politicians, you might think we are all terrorists
I'm not going to today give you a full accounting of specific steps we're going to take in reaction to this arrest. We're not there yet. But I think it is important to note that, as I said before, the repression of political dissent does have an impact on the bilateral relationship, and the relationship would be moving forward farther and faster, if there were more political openness, more tolerance of dissent, less restrictions.
Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.
Today I announce that I will seek and I will win the presidency of the United States of America, ... a dishonest decade of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them.
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.
This flood of new data is meant to tell patients what they need to know to take greater control of their own care. Being able to pinpoint where waits are shortest is expected to encourage them to move around more inside their provinces. And if the wait-tracking sites evolve to let easy comparisons be made among provinces, some doctors predict growing pressure from patients who want to travel to another province for treatment. As the rise of Internet wait-times disclosure shifts power to patients, it's also bound to keep the pressure on politicians and hospital administrators. What the public is going to see initially is that the wait times are coming down, ... If they ever start to go back up again, all hell is going to break loose.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
The trial is totally meaningless. It's a political issue, not a legal issue. The procedures and the outcome were decided a long time ago. The people behind this want a lynching they don't want justice.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a ''dictator'' substitutes himself for the central committee.
Over his presidency, President Bush has made great strides to increase foreign aid, so today's announcement of cuts to core development funding is a big disappointment. Although the US is the largest donor in the world, and US assistance had been on the i
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
If he ever thought about putting forward a hard-nosed conservative, in the wake of Katrina and the negative publicity he's received, this is not the time to pick a political fight.
I do miss being in the great debates. But I don't think the debates are as great as they used to be. Politics in this country has gotten very nasty in the past 10 or 15 years.
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
There is no question, however, that the bank was feeling a great deal of political pressure put upon it by the government.
The president believes that the Olympics are a sporting event, not a political event. But having said that, this now is an opportunity for China to showcase itself as a modern nation.
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
This court has a dark history, it has always been chosen to try political opponents. This is a political verdict.
It speaks to the issue of money and politics. It appears they're voting one way to please one group of people and changing that vote in hopes of getting campaign contributions later on.
Just from a pure fundraising capacity, we're trending in all the right directions, significant increases quarter over quarter and beating our competition by significant margins. He's got the ideas, he's got the political momentum and he has the money on his side.
We urge Ukraine to assess the political consequences of this decision and prevent a large-scale social and economic catastrophe, which will also affect hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens.
These are millionaire candidates who we thought would run above traditional politics, and instead they have super-sized their negative campaigns. What citizens have gotten is a very conventional campaign dominated by name calling and exaggerated criticism of both candidates.
I am a citizen fed up with the way the country is headed, ... While they may be well intentioned, I have lost my confidence that the professional politicians can turn things around. The U. S. Senate needs to be shaken up, and I am not afraid to do it.
Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.
Be very careful about voting for someone that comes to your town out of nowhere in order to launch a political career at the expense of taxpayers and loyal city residents. Don't believe a deceiver, once a deceiver always a deceiver.
I think John Edwards is a very exciting figure in American politics, and he is going to run a great campaign and be a great partner with John Kerry,
The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.
A presidency can shape an era - and it can change our lives. A successful presidency can give meaning to an age.
It says the Republican leadership has accepted the political reality that Katherine Harris will be the GOP candidate for the United States Senate.