The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
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.
For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.
Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.
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.
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?
It takes heart to be in political life.
Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
I love that theatre can be political. You can go watch a play; it sends out messages, and you can go away thinking differently to the way you thought about it before.
The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.
The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
Never forget that the most political thing you can ever do is follow your heart.
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.
Highly placed New York kingmakers work toward 'convergence' between the Republican and Democratic parties so as to preserve their 'America Last' foreign policy and eliminate foreign policy from political campaigns.
The census should not be political.
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous - though, of course, they would not have used that phrase.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
The Democrats' obsession with the Kochs as a political target is, indeed, additional evidence of a truly Nixonian approach to politics.
I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.
I would have to say that Richard Nixon is probably the most gifted and skilled political practitioner, in his pre-presidential years, of all of the American presidents in the 20th century.
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.
As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.
America is inundated with polls. We need a term for being swamped with polls. I would say 'poll-arized,' but that's already in use to describe our political divisions.
To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.
I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
