Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.
Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.
Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.
And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.
My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.
The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.
My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.
Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.
I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.
