Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen.
There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.
Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.
'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.
The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.
I'm teaching my daughters to be ladies by showing them how to dress appropriately when they leave the house, and how to be thoughtful and polite.
I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.
Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.
Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.
