Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: politics

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

I try to swim against the current as much as possible when it comes to the tribalism that defines the way people do politics on social media, and I try to present myself as an individual and humanistic voice. I'm interested in people, not just factions.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

People use restaurants to do business, to do politics, to socialize.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

I'm not in politics.

Competition, by itself, always leads to cheating by the powerful, who try to establish pyramids of power, like feudalism. Yet, competition is the great creative force! So how do we save it from its own contradictions? By cooperation! By cooperating with each other, via politics, to make rules and prevent cheating, so that competition can thrive!

Research who your politicians are, even; know what they do, know who they're supported by legislatively, and know who is supporting them financially for their campaigns. Because ever since Citizens United, we've seen a massive growth in the amount of campaign contributions and corruption in politics as a result, and that has to change.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

I'm not into politics.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

My life hasn't been all about politics.

You don't enter politics when you come to parliament. I was getting politics for breakfast, dinner and tea when I was a little kid.

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

People are gravitating towards Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders because they are doing their own thing. I think people are trying to cut out the middle man and just get to the source and get away from Washington politics.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.

A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from charlatans.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

In politics, you're like a toilet seat: you're up one day and down the next.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.