What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
I have absolutely no political ambitions.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
I do think that sometimes, especially coming into this going straight from activism to being a candidate or to being a person who potentially, you know, looks like will be holding political office soon, I think we expect our politicians to be perfect and fully formed and on point on every single issue.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.
Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
