You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to ol...
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.
There's no such thing as a partisan base.
Political audiences are not fun.
I'm an economist. I'm not a political servant.
I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.
I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.
I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of politics firsthand. It gave you a chance to be at the table.
If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.
Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.
My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.
