To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.
I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.
As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
Politics will take care of itself. I'm interested in people who are involved in the situations that politicians create. Politics is taken care of by politicians - they're not filmmakers.
This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.
I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.
But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple: because we care about animals, and we don't want them to suffer. And because we eat them. Our values and behaviors are incong...
I'm not familiar with the metric system.
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
Many outsiders clarified that they believe Christians have a right (even an obligation) to pursue political involvement, but they disagree with our methods and our attitudes. They say we seem to be pursuing an agenda that benefits only ourselves; tha...
Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
The Presence of the demon keeps the chakra from doing its job, but that challenge also forces us to bring more awareness to that job, so eventually we can do it better.
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think ...
Anxious systems also fail to get a clear view of things. Embedded in their dread, they lose a sense of proportion. They have little awareness of what is happening and how it is being mutually maintained. Emotionally cramps the broader view.
The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and explain every phenomenon away on the basis of that system. ...
