Political Quotes - Page 281

do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage

The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.

I did not always agree, personally, on the positions that Bartlet, character from the West Wing, took and I argued against them on many occasions. But Aaron Sorkin said, "Martin, that's you, that's not Barlet. It's a very political decision he has to make." I found from the very beginning that when I infused my own personal feelings about an issue it went against the grain of the character.

We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily. And it is an anti-systemic experience that is not in some cases politicized, but in general results in a much more transgressive, much more uncomfortable music for the structures of power, than conscious rap or political rap.

A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin color or culture, but more it is a political affirmation with all these implications and more.

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

No president in modern times has come to power with less political experience or less managerial experience. On the other hand, no president has come to power with a clearer record of political extremism. As senator, Barack Obama had the most left-wing voting record in the Senate. . . .

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

Think I'll win. Could be big.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.

I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In my experience in political cartooning, I was never one of those people who read the headlines and foams at the mouth with rabid opinion that I've just got to get down on paper.

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.

In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406 billion is pathetically squandered on interest, just because we lacked the discipline to pay our bills when due.

I figure you give Donald trump two years to see if his approach works, the business rather than the political approach. You'll see at the end of two years if new jobs are being created, money flow comes back from overseas, all of that, the immigration chaos subsides. You got to give him two years, but I think I know what he's trying to do and you know we'll watch it.

[Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number of more than 200 American cities who have signed on to the mayor's climate campaign.

By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.