It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Black Creek Burning: “It was a polite, white lie,” Brie whispered. “I’ll have to remember you think that way,” Nathan said.
politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
A sat note crept into his voice. "But something's missing now from political discourse." "What?" "Caring about others," he said.
I am no longer 'trying to dig up evidence to prove' vaccines cause autism. There is already abundant evidence....This debate is not scientific but is political
I am no longer 'trying to dig up evidence to prove' vaccines cause autism. There is already abundant evidence. This debate is not scientific but is political
To change a political system, the majority of the thinking citizens must unite, speak with one voice and stand firm like one leg.
The political writer, then is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.
Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.
If politics left out the manipulation of money, I would perhaps view it more than a partisan traffic jam that never ends.
No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.
Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work.
