Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.
An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.
I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.
Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.
A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.
Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.
In politics. . . never retreat, never retract. . . never admit a mistake.
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism — and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.
I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U. S. ] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.
Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.
I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.