- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political Quotes
Political life, criticized and examined from several sides.
This set includes one quote critical of a named judge's judicial philosophy, alongside more general observations about school boards serving as a training ground for political leadership. For satirical takes on politics, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anything, what happened in Iraq after the fall of Saddam set back prospects for democratic reform in the region, as many came to associate political change with chaos.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The political world is defined by relationships rather than transactions, and by numerous actors at home and abroad with independent power. Navigating such a world is difficult and precarious.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our job as a business is not to promote a political agenda. That's not what we do.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next time a news outlet complains about the state of our political rhetoric or the uninformed U.S. voter, we should promptly point them to the video of Ashley Parker raucous in a Polish cemetery or Philip Rucker's diatribes on party invitations.
- Nov 07, 2020
Equal rights should not be a partisan political issue - so why are all gay leaders in one political party?
- Foreign Affairs
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Kerry is going to have a rough tenure as secretary of state. But let's face it: whoever came after Hillary Clinton was going to have to deal with a foreign affairs press corps that has been sleeping for four years. From the moment Hillary entered Foggy Bottom, political reporters have treated their beloved secretary of state with kid gloves.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon.
- Political Party
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- Nov 07, 2020