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The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.
It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place.
We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?
Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.
I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.
When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.
do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.
I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.
The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.
I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.
It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.
In an odd way, Donald Trump and maybe Brexit is gonna be great for inspiring a new wave of socially conscious political music.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.
Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.
You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.
All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.
The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.
We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.
Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.
It doesn't matter my political views, who I like or dislike: If a president ever asks me to do anything, I'm going to say yes.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.