In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

A ver si te enteras de una vez, hijo: no hay una España. Hay dos. Y hasta que una de las dos Españas no acabe con la otra, la cosa seguirá igual.

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The ’80s were about acquiring — acquiring wealth, power, prestige....

I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation’s official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a...

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

…no matter how rhapsodic one waxes about the process of wresting edible plants and tamed animals from the sprawling vagaries of nature, there’s a timeless, unwavering truth espoused by those who worked the land for...

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

If people don’t take politics seriously, then they deserve the jokers that rule over them.

Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old order. He must sometimes have wondered how it came about that he should...

I think I’m most proud of the fact that after 30 years in politics, I had a lot of folks who wanted me to come back.

I wonder are we the people really that high on these political agenda’s these day’s? Or are we merely pawns in the majestic Game of Thrones?

As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche, as the Husains had found in garbage; politics and corruption, in which Asha placed her hopes; and education.

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn’t in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I’d learned long ago from Charles...

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

Or they’ll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics

His sentences didn’t seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can’t learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up...

En general, el político es político precisamente porque es torpe.

Already the people murmur that I am your enemybecause they say that in verse I give the world your me.They lie, Julia de Burgos. They lie, Julia de Burgos.Who rises in my verses is not...

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics,” Ford said, “then something is the matter with politics.

…Subordination of the state to Christian values is precisely what the early Puritans, even those in the tradition of the Mayflower Pilgrims, aimed to do. The First Amendment notwithstanding, large numbers of the American public...

We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it

Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow … Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and financiers …...

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors […] I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun...

We’re all in this together.

Barack Obama is an even worse president than George W. Bush, because an evil bastard who knows what he’s doing is far more dangerous than an evil bastard who doesn’t have a clue.

Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally – few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.

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

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and right – I think the important question is between the industrial society and the earth-based society. And I say that because I...

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

A city’s only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

Impartial, compassionate, brave, and understanding…these are the traits that come with putting the Noble Eightfold Path into practice. By following this path, anyone can become the kind of leader the Buddha hoped to see—a leader...

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.

We are defending Christianity; not “my religion”. When we mention our personal opinions we must always make quite clear the difference between them and the Faith itself.

When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real...

Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is present. There would be no contradiction in that, if terror reigned everywhere in the world, but the colonizer enjoys, in...

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

Ivanov- “Up to now , all revolutions have been made by moralizing diletantes. They were always in good faith and perished because of their dilettantism. We for the first time are consequent…””Yes,” said Rubashov. “So...

When we start building perceptions based on our own experiences and judgements and not by the influence of fake media reports, that’s the indication of our transformation into a mature society.

No, I’m the human here. I’m the life at stake. I’m the one with fingernails, who feels pain.Me.

. . . have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” —Steve Jobs

…all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we’d know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they’d never be...

We are our own worst enemy.