Political Quotes
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
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I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
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Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?
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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were kids, and too wedded to the status quo group that clings to power.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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Dealing with political things, it's not for me. It makes me crazy. I want to buy, you want to sell. Please make it simple.
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I don't see myself in the political realm.
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For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
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It is possible for political forces to agree.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.
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We have developed contacts with five groups of insurgents. We are making these contacts in an attempt to bring them into the political process.
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Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
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The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.
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Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
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Obviously, you have the DNC engaged in communication with lots of different parties, and anything you can use to gain intelligence about what's going on in the U.S. political system and what the candidates are thinking is of high interest to Russian intelligence.
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People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it's just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles.
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The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.
