I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.
I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.
I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I just wanted to know what they'd had for breakfast.
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.
It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.
Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.
I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.
The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.
Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
