There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.
I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.
The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.
Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.
Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.
I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.
Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.
I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.
Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
