I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.

The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich.

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

Angela Merkel and the CDU are not our political adversaries. The CDU and the CSU are sister parties.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

President Bush spent the day calling names he couldn't pronounce in countries he never knew existed.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.

The worst side of people is political part of the process, the side that can be very mean and nasty.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

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