Quotes of: Political-work Keyword

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institut...

Jon Meacham

I'm much more comfortable in a meritocracy and in reward for good work as opposed to a political environment, where I feel like all of that can be confused.

Desiree Rogers

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Thomas Sowell

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition

I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax...

Adam McKay

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

Ziggy Marley

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

Jonathan Nolan

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

Taryn Simon

There are two strategies available in a partisan political environment for communities working for justice. You can join the Democratic Party - and, once inside the tent, work to bend it more to your will. Or you can not join the Democratic Party - a...

Rick Perlstein

The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history.

A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a...

Per Petterson

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things th...

Alexei Navalny

My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics wi...

Vinny Guadagnino

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

Bob Ehrlich

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

Mark Warner

Johnny Depp was the most polite young actor I've ever worked with.

Robert Englund

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Lewis Black

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I k...

Aaron Schock

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

Kevin Hart