Molly Ivins Quotes
In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the governor's office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.Molly Ivins
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Politics is the art of the next best.
Otto von Bismarck -
I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
Aaron Sorkin -
But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
Uma Thurman -
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
Nancy Pearcey -
Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.
Fabrizio Moreira
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Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
M.I.A. -
It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
Malcolm Turnbull -
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
Iain Duncan Smith -
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
Samantha Power -
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
Harold Pinter -
While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.
N. T. Wright
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I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.
Ed Koch -
Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
Nancy Gibbs -
I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
Patricia Highsmith -
I don't know a lot about politics.
Canelo Alvarez -
I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
Vagit Alekperov -
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
Fidel Castro
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The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
Paul Keating -
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Murray Kempton -
I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”)
Richard Matheson -
I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
Maelle Gavet -
Fame, you know, it's like a handgun - in the wrong hands, it's dangerous.
Matthew Morrison -
In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the governor's office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.
Molly Ivins