I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.
It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would hope.
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
