The first step in solving a problem is recognizing there is one

Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

The north-south line of ‘the mountains,’ meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it’s important...

To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn’t have spent a trillion.

I’m not the kind of writer who’s able to block out the world around me. I’m mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about...

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with...

Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.

A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.

…the Palestinian Arabs’ obsession with the Jews and rejection of all political compromise was inspired by Islamic teachings as well as by European fascism.

I think it’s my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

It’s an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his...

The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the...

Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge...

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made “legal.” Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

No really I’m pretty sure voting mattered a scant 15 years ago but now it’s just a way to see how many old people live in your neighborhood.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast – whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social...

Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country – but it’s controllable, it’s workable and it will lead to a...

In 2008, Barack Obama was the electoral equivalent of the Hula Hoop; a political Pet Rock; a craze, a fad, an irrational gadget. The latest have-to-have, must-vote-for candidate.

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Political parties don’t work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it has been there from the beginning. I mean by the political no more than the way we...

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them – the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

Growing up in Egypt, I never saw the country as divided as it is today. We now have two main political groupings: the Islamist parties and the civil, or liberal, political parties.

You get to the point where you wonder when is it going to be enough.” It is never going to be enough if the point is not searching for the truth but protecting a particular...

Have a smile on your face for everyone you meet, and a plan to kill them.

I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn’t feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I’m a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn’t mean they...

Simplemente, considero que la política es la actuación pública de pasiones privadas. Incluyendo, sobre todo, acaso, la pasión amorosa. Pero las pasiones son formas arbitrarias de la conducta y la política es una disciplina.

I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That’s a wisdom I’ve garnered.

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people’s-visions-for-the-future.

A lot of artists say, I’m not political. People are afraid of this word.

Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of ‘The Borgias,’ he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less...

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and allelse, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

For guns and ammunition,” says I.

When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.

What is true of Mr. Mill’s influence on the women’s-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.