Political Quotes - Page 137

Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats.

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

I feel like there is this weird thing where celebrity involvement in political campaigns kind of goes together like peanut butter and chocolate. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take the form of religion, but the politics is there. Then you are competing with other saints.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

Women in Jordan are participating in all aspects of civil as well as political life - as female judges, parliamentarians, businesswomen. And the evolution will continue. This is not something that happens overnight.

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.

When in our days Religion is made a political engine, she exposes herself to having her sacred character forgotten. The most tolerant become intolerant towards her. Believers, who believe something else besides what she teaches, retaliate by attacking her in the very sanctuary itself.