Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.
I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.
A sports journalist doesn't have to be sporty any more than a political journalist has to be an opportunistic liar.
A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
I wonder if Blue knows she’s repainting her room.I wonder if he’s asking if she wants a ride to the party tonight.I wonder if he knows what being strangled feels like.
They weren't making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses, but which can go on for ever, if both parties are willing.
There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect
I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.
These things...they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could accept.
But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk.
He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the other party.
In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party.
Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness come out like life is a terrific party.
