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believe that I was lucky to have suffered. Some people dont realize that
in suffering there is great potential, because if you are deprived for any reason..
politically, financially, socially or otherwise.. and if you set your mind in
the right direction, you will find that the only way to survive is for you to
excel, by being better so you can be treated better.
Talal
Abu-Ghazaleh - Belief
- Luck
- Inspirational
- Politics
- Finance
- Social
- Best
- Pain
- Challenges
The average voter out there understands
that the next president is going to have
to be prepared to immediately step in without
hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq.
It's very difficult to figure out how to
move on to broader foreign policy concerns
without fixing Iraq first.
Joe
Biden - War
- Voting
- President
- Iraq
- Politics
I don't think the government can dictate
the definition of marriage to religious
institutions. But government does have an
obligation to guarantee that every individual
is free of discrimination. And there's a
distinction. I think government should not
be able to dictate to religions the definition
of marriage, but on a civil side, government
has the obligation to strip away every vestige
of discrimination as to what individuals
are able to do in terms of their personal
conduct.
Joe
Biden - Politics
- Government
- Dictate
- Religion
- Discrimination
- Marriage
If your kitchen table is like mine, you
sit there at night before you put the kids
to bed and you talk about what you need.
You talk about how much you are worried
about being able to pay the bills. Ladies
and gentlemen, that is not a worry John
McCain has to worry about. It's a pretty
hard experience. He'll have to figure out
which of the seven kitchen tables to sit
at.
Joe
Biden - Politics
- Children
- Talk
- Worry
- Bills
- Rich
- Funny
Political
My position is that I am personally opposed
to abortion, but I don't think I have a
right to impose my view on the rest of society.
I've thought a lot about it, and my position
probably doesn't please anyone. I think
the government should stay out completely.
I will not vote to overturn the Court's
decision. I will not vote to curtail a woman's
right to choose abortion. But I will also
not vote to use federal funds to fund abortion.
Joe
Biden - Politics
- Government
- Religion
- Society
- Voting
- Woman
- Abortion
- Decisions
There's good reason to be excited. You have
the first
woman running who is qualified, and
a very attractive African-American
who has demonstrated crossover appeal. I
got involved in politics 40 years ago during
the civil rights movement, so yes, it's
an exciting thing.
Joe
Biden - Politics
- America
- Woman
- Civil
Rights - Exciting
So much of politics is about the daily grind
of political business: the people to see,
the myriad different facets of government,
the remorseless agenda of this part of the
media or that.
Tony
Blair - Politicians
- Commitment
- People
The blunt truth about the politics of climate
change is that no country will want to sacrifice
its economy in order to meet this challenge,
but all economies know that the only sensible
long term way of developing is to do it
on a sustainable basis.
Tony
Blair - Truth
- Politicians
- Environmental
- Economy
- Change
At the heart of my politics has always been
the value of community, the belief that
we are not merely individuals struggling
in isolation from each other, but members
of a community who depend on each other,
who benefit from each other's help, who
owe obligations to each other. From that
everything stems: solidarity, social justice,
equality, freedom.
Tony
Blair - Politicians
- Responsibility
- Help
- Freedom
It's evolutionary, going from governor to
president, and this is a significant step,
to be able to vote for yourself on the ballot,
and I'll be able to do so next fall, I hope
George
Bushism - Politics
- America
- Funny
- President
- Government
My relationship with this good man (Tony
Blair) is where I've been focused, and
that's where my concentration is. And I
don't regret any other aspect of it. And
so I.. we filled a lot of space together.
George
Bushism - Politics
- Relationships
- Focus
There's a lot of blowhards in the political
process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists,
people who have got something fancy to say.
George
Bush - Politics
We believe the American people can spend
their money better than the government can
spend it.
George
Bush - Politics
- America
- Belief
- Government
- Taxes
- Money
We believe ranchers and farmers and family
business owners can make better decisions
about the future than the government can.
George
Bush - Politics
- Belief
- Government
- Taxes
- Farming
- Decisions
I've made it clear, Madam President, that
the war against terrorism is not a war against
Muslims, nor is it a war against Arabs.
It's a war against evil people who conduct
crimes against innocent people.
George
Bush - War
- Politics
- Religion
- Arab
When it comes to the common rights and needs
of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations.
The requirements of freedom apply fully
to Africa and Latin America and the entire
Islamic world. The peoples of the Islamic
nations want and deserve the same freedoms
and opportunities as people in every nation.
And their governments should listen to their
hopes.
George
Bush - America
- Politics
- Religion
- Government
- Opportunity
- Human
Rights - Freedom
- Hope
You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship
would be a lot easier.. So long as I'm the
dictator.
George
Bush - Politics
- Leadership
The challenge is to practice politics as
the art of making what appears to be impossible,
possible.
Hillary
Rodham Clinton - Challenges
- Politicians
- Optimistic
You know in politics you are dealing in
the realm of choices. You don't always have
clear-cut decision between a thoroughly
principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled
one. You're making snap decisions with paucity
of information, generally trying to do the
best that you can, but you will make errors,
and sometimes it's a decision between a
bad and a worse alternative. It has to be
done, because we need to order our society,
and of politics it can literally be said:
Bad job, but someone's got to do it.
Peter
Costello - Decisions
- Social
- Politics
- Jobs
The prudential regulation that I have put
in place has been absolutely critical. The
fiscal policy which we have put in place
has been absolutely critical and if people
looked at Australia now turn its back on
economic reform, which of course industrial
relations rollback or throwback would be,
let me tell you, that would really start
affecting confidence.
Peter
Costello - Economy
- Australia
- Politics
Our system of government is one of checks
and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise
between the Executive and the Parliament,
compromise between one House and another,
compromise between the States and the Commonwealth
and compromise between groups of persons
with legitimate interests and other groups
with other legitimate interests. There is
room for compromise.. indeed demand for
it.. in a system of checks and balances.
Peter
Costello - Government
- Politics
- Negotiation
This is not the kind of country where you
would feel comfortable if you were opposed
to democracy, parliamentary law, independent
courts and so I would say to people who
don't feel comfortable with those values
there might be other countries where they'd
feel more comfortable with their own values
or beliefs
Peter
Costello - Social
- Australia
- Politics
- Religion
- Values
- Belief
- Culture
America has the potential for the greatest
economic boom and spiritual renewal in our
history. But we're being held back by Washington
politics as usual. It's time we move forward.
Steve
Forbes - Politicians
- Economic
- Spiritual
- Encouragement
The Prime
Minister seems now to be basing his
re-election campaign on this plot line.
He is saying to the Australian people, look
out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo
and whatever you do, dont vote Labor.
This political parody of pantomime is looking
and sounding desperate.
Julia
Gillard - Criticism
- Australia
- Politics
We are constantly being told that weve
never been wealthier. And many of us are.
On average we all are. But thats just
the problem.. no one is average.
Julia
Gillard - Wealth
- Problems
- Politics
At the end of the day government is about
teamwork and partnership and we will be
proving that by working together.
Julia
Gillard - Government
- Partnership
- Politics
Elections are a kind of business. I have
to present myself: 'I can do this and that
for this area so please give me your vote'.
People vote for the politicians who can
best understand and contribute to their
region or country. In a business you can
choose your clients, and the message is
targeted to them only. But politics is universal;
no matter what age the audience, you have
to send the same message to everyone.
Takafumi
Horie - Politicians
- Business
It's not that I'm not interested in politics,
but rather, I think that the people who
become politicians in Japan are not very
dynamic. Honestly, I find business much
more interesting than politics.
Takafumi
Horie - Politicians
- Business
- Interesting
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth
is never disposable in national political
life.
John
Howard - Truth
- Politicians
For
Indigenous Australians, equal rights and citizenship have not always translated
into full participation in Australian society. All Indigenous Australians have
only been counted in the census since the 1967 Referendum. Even so, State protection
and welfare laws continued to control the lives of Indigenous Australians and
denied them equal rights, well into the 1970's. Jackie
Huggins - Human
Rights - Indigenous
- Australia
- Politics
- Society
Too
often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones
who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like
tough, abrasive guys.
Carl
Icahn - Politics
- Intelligent
- Management
Republicans have become the party of red,
white and blue rose colored glasses. By
drowning out criticism with USA! USA!, they
prevent this country from healing itself
where it needs healing, and that is the
opposite of Country First.
Bill
Maher - Republican
- America
- Criticism
- Patriotic
- Politics
Karl Rove described Obama
as "the guy at the country club with
the beautiful date, holding a martini, and
making snide comments about everyone who
passes by." Unlike George
Bush, who's the guy at the country club
who makes snide comments, and then passes
out. Now this characterization, of course,
was something Mr. Rove just completely pulled
out of his bulbous, gelatinous a$$, but
remember this is America, a land where people
believe anything they hear.
Bill
Maher - Republican
- America
- Criticism
- Politics
- Stupid
- Belief
Power properly understood is nothing but
the ability to achieve purpose. It is the
strength required to bring about social,
political and economic change.
Martin
Luther King Jr - Power
- Social
- Understanding
- Strong
- Change
- Politics
- Economy
- Achievement
Democracy is based on the majority principle.
This is especially true in a country such
as ours where the vast majority have been
systematically denied their rights. At the
same time, democracy also requires that
the rights of political and other minorities
be safeguarded.
Nelson
Mandela - Peace
- Democracy
- Love
- Human
Rights - Politics
Between capitalist and communist society
there lies the period of the revolutionary
transformation of the one into the other.
Corresponding to this is also a political
transition period in which the state can
be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship
of the proletariat.
Karl
Marx - Social
- Capitalism
- Communism
- Change
- Revolution
- Politics
- Proletariat
- Class
- Dictator
Political economy regards the proletarian
like a horse, he must receive enough to
enable him to work. It does not consider
him, during the time when he is not working,
as a human being. It leaves this to criminal
law, doctors, religion, statistical tables,
politics, and the beadle.
Karl
Marx - Religion
- Politics
- Proletariat
- Class
- Working
Class - Economy
- Work
- Value
- Law
- Doctor
Whoever decides to dedicate their life to
politics knows that earning money isn't
the top priority.
Angela
Merkel - Money
- Life
- Priorities
- Earnings
- Politicians
If you want to be constructive in politics,
the less you look back, the better. If you
do look back, then it can only be to learn
for yourself through the events that have
taken place.
Angela
Merkel - Politicians
- Learning
In my heart I know you didn't come here
just for me, you came here because you believe
in what this country can be. In the face
of war, you believe there can be peace.
In the face of despair, you believe there
can be hope. In the face of a politics that's
shut you out, that's told you to settle,
that's divided us for too long, you believe
we can be one people, reaching for what's
possible, building that more perfect union.
Barack
Obama - War
- Encouragement
- America
- Politics
- Belief
For the first time in my adult lifetime,
I'm really proud of my country, and not
just because Barack
has done well, but because I think people
are hungry for change.
Michelle
Obama - Proud
- USA
- Change
- Politics
Policies that support families aren't political
issues. They're personal. They're the causes
I carry with me every single day.
Michelle
Obama - Politics
- Family
- Support
Barack,
like any leader, is human. And, you know,
our challenges in this country isn't finding
the next person who's gonna deliver us from
our own evil. Because our challenges are
us. The challenges that this country faces
is how are we as individuals in this society
gonna change? What are we gonna do differently?
Michelle
Obama - USA
- Change
- Politics
- Leadership
- Challenges
- Society
- Evil
Barack
and I have been in the public eye for many
years now, and we've developed a thick skin
along the way. When youre out campaigning,
there will always be criticism. I just take
it in stride, and at the end of the day,
I know that it comes with the territory.
Michelle
Obama - Politics
- Criticism
Im not a member of the permanent political
establishment. And Ive learned quickly
these past few days that if youre
not a member in good standing of the Washington
elite, then some in the media consider a
candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
But heres a little news flash for
all those reporters and commentators: Im
not going to Washington to seek their good
opinion. Im going to Washington to
serve the people of this country.
Sarah
Palin - Politicians
- Politics
- Media
- Journalism
- Opinions
- Washington
- America
- News
I might add that in small towns, we don't
quite know what to make of a candidate who
lavishes praise on working people when they
are listening, and then talks about how
bitterly they cling to their religion and
guns when those people aren't listening.
(talking about Barack
Obama at the Republican convention speech
in 2008)
Sarah
Palin - Politicians
- Politics
- Praise
- Criticism
- Religion
Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions
of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds
of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas
onshore and offshore. And it seems to be
only the Republicans who understand that
companies should be competing for the right
to tap those resources, and get that energy
source flowing into these hungry markets
so that we will be less reliant on foreign
sources of energy. In a volatile world,
relying on foreign regimes that are not
friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp
up resource production for our benefit,
that's nonsensical.
Sarah
Palin - Politicians
- Politics
- America
- Oil
- Republican
- Energy
- Pollution
Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time
we rehabilitated compassion into the national
political vocabulary of this great nation
of ours.
Kevin
Rudd - Compassion
- Australia
- Politics
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about
the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live
and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this
parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the
few or the many. Kevin
Rudd - Politics
- Power
- Social
- Economy
- Responsibility
That's
the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer
of both. A synthetic comedy-like material. Jon
Stewart - Politicians
- Funny
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people
don't go into government.
Donald
Trump - Politicians
In religion and politics, people's beliefs
and convictions are in almost every case
gotten at second hand, and without examination.
Mark
Twain - Religion
- Politics
- Conviction
- Belief
- Stupid
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