This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.
Think I'll win. Could be big.
I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.
I took a vow of political celibacy.
In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.
Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.
Sometimes during a conversation with a journalist - where you are answering things you never normally talk about, not even with some of your closest friends - you end up being quite confessional, and you don't think about the amplification of that. No matter how fancy these journalists are, they have editors or political leanings behind their publications, which means that, basically, they're going to shape what you've said into an article they've already written. So you have to be really careful with your words.
If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.
Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.
the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.
To get rich is glorious.
Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.
Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.
Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best
Chimpanzees can be quite political.