Politics Quotes
The most pressing problem facing America can't be solved in Washington DC. True hope and change can't be found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It can only be found at the foot of the cross on Calvary.
If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.
If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.
We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.
This won't stop her from getting elected...Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy.
The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.
America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.
Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.
After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.
The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people can govern themselves.
I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes...
Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.
Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.
In our century of progress and industrialization we still cannot avoid and prevent wars. I'd propose to have a separate planet where we'd insert fighting coutries to solve their business.
In our century of progress and industrialization we still cannot avoir and prevent wars. I'd propose to have a separate planet where we'd insert fighting coutries to solve their business.
Let's stop fighting over who we believe created the planet, & work together against those that choose to destroy it.
Life is like a boxing match, it seems, society has not been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of crime
He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.
Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...
I am asked – and I’m speaking to young Canada now – are there rewards in public life? There are – not monetary but there is a tremendous satisfaction in being able to say I tried, I stood.
A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated from the normal human condition.
Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered.
A tiger of a rather and a wolf of a brother. Sandwiched between the two, I wonder what my tomorrow holds.
Face it, George – unlike cholera, death is the only disease everyone is guaranteed to get.’Heath nodded slowly. ‘But usually only once, Hamish. Usually only once.
Long-term solutions are more attractive and cause much less controversy than short-term solutions, which will affect people who are still alive and voting.
In any career, there is a moment when you are no longer need to be pushed up from below, but rather pulled up from above. Know when that moment comes and adjust your strategy accordingly.
Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people
Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.
It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.
Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.
Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.
To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.
You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.
Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?
Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria
The low suffer most the blow of the law
No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution—but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.
First wrong by brow-beater abuses the body of law. And the revenge of brow-beaten announces that there is no law in state. Says Bhutta
Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered.
I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.
