Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'
Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.
If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism.
I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row of them seems to shift very slightly, like a curtain blown by the breeze through an open window. Red is next to blue is next to cream is adjacent to ...
If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear the footsteps...
It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.
My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.
In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.
You cannot win an election without a fight.
George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country.
I voted for you during your last election.
The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
I would rather be respected than elected.
The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.
