Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

The Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly said that America is not at war with Islam. And Republicans need to be vocal about condemning anyone, in America or abroad, who seeks to lump all Muslims...

Improvising political dialogue is not easy.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time...

I’d love to say that I could write political songs, but I don’t feel clued-up enough.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your...

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

I expect that in 40 years’ time I’ll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

If the Palestinian people really suffered a nakba, it was largely of their own making — and that of their grand mufti.

I think that the memory of Armenia’s genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. ‘Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

And then the other guy will look really sheepish, and mumble that, okay, maybe he tried to make a run for it, and maybe he took a drunken swing at the arresting officer, and maybe...

Beneath all this he is able to identify as well the dangers of a humanism which shuts out the humane and transcendent horizons and can threaten a new form of the dark night of the...

Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political...

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don’t blame them.

O silêncio dos omissos é combustível para a vilania dos canalhas

Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don’t find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That...

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

People didn’t vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Tell your wives and your older children to bring with them dish pans and cooking pots. Tell them to bring their stirring spoons and ladles. Tell them to carry a mop over their shoulders. We’re...

I don’t believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

They did it quite a lot after that first encounter” … when Jill remembers first meeting the dashing Baron.

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character’s voice when writing fiction.

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.

far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease; they always put a foot in their mouths

Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united.

The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition.

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won’t believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties...

States’ rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states’ rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen,...

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

I can’t be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I’m bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates...

And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily over half a ladleful of thin oatmeal kasha, cooked entirely without fat – just oats and water.

November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on...

When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity?

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

That’s whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through – whenever they are in the news, that’s when they exist. If you don’t see them they don’t exist.

A leader does not stand still and reject all paths forward.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that – more of a deeper political union.

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as ‘the only man’ in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought...

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also...