The very things that I would love about Barack and that you would love about Barack is that he is one of us. He's a normal guy. He's not a political animal.
I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.
To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.
If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.
I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.
Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.
Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.
As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'
