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All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'
I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.
It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.
Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.
When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.
I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.
No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.
We don't know something called elections in Libya. We are a muslim country. We don't know something called colonialism and political parties.
Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."
We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.
There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.
I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.
There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.
One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom
If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.
Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.
In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.
I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.
The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general.
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.
One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.