In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.
The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
