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.'
There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work!
There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.
