You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.
But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.
It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.
I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.
I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.
I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I just wanted to know what they'd had for breakfast.
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.
Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.
I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
