Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.
Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Fron...
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.
If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political - are destined to be driven to the brink, further jeopardizing the strength and competitiveness of our country and its citizens.
Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultu...
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.
If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
