Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
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.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.
We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
