En cambio, la fortuna política es un largo orgasmo, querido. El éxito tiene que ser mediato y lento en llegar para ser duradero. Un largo orgasmo, querido.

Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism – Leninism.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don’t do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices – and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn’t resolve them.

If we didn’t have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

…if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones

It seems like we’ve got more of a political theme this year,

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!

And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.

Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of...

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there’ll be additional violence.

Well, I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I’ve learned quickly these last few days that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the...

Be careful when building walls to protect yourself. Those same walls may cage you in.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

We keep electing council members for appearance sake, it doesn’t mean anything, and it is just a show for the people, so that they may sleep well at night with their delusion of peace.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don’t want to be a politician.

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has...

Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not…it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home...

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think...

Palestine is the anvil of our souls.

In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in...

Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing’s funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party...

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.

I don’t like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the...

There’s one political party in this country, and that’s the corporate party.

People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change...

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill’s supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.

I always laugh and say, ‘Dudes, if I have to choose, I’m a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.’ I need to say how I feel.

I think that we are at a point in our country where we’re trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who’ve spent more time in la-la land than in the ‘real world.’

I would venture to say that it was about the political situation.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

We are each other’s seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.

There is no such condition as ‘schizophrenia’, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be...

The Libertarian Party convention wasn’t much better. You will never find a more stammering, awkward, inarticulate group of people than libertarians. I still remember the convention the previous year, entitled ‘Women of Liberty.’ All of...

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...