Barack Obama Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Political Quotes

With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

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If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

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I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.

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... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

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There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

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We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

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My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

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The woman who knew that I had dyslexia - I never interviewed her.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

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In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

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