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A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
Why, of course, the people don't want war.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.
The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.
The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.
Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.
As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.
Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.
No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.
If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?
In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force their governments to sit down, it can happen.
Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.
Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.
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.
Of course, this person is to have the trust of the American people, then he or she would not only have the wish but also the supported political will to implement all these agreements.
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.
But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.
There is no political will for peace in the Israeli government. They're not serious about political peace because they're still building settlements and demolishing Palestinian homes. That is a great tragedy.
You have climate change and antibiotic resistance which are two of the biggest horses of the apocalypse, and they're basically breathing on our necks, and there's no political will or effort being expended to deal with them.
At any time the atmosphere in the West could change, for which determined political will I do not see at the moment is a necessary prerequisite. From the sidelines, it seems that he's caught up in his own exorbitant ambitions.
For achieving good governance political will is necessary. Good governance is a political process. Though role of civil society is critical, without political will and political process, sustainable good governance cannot be achieved.
I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.
The people are learning that you cannot leave decisions only to leaders. Local groups have to create the political will for change, rather than waiting for others to do things for them. That is where positive, and sustainable, change begins.
