People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
PeopleSurprisePoliticalCareer
So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.
Brian Mulroney
ControlPoliticalProblemWashington
In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.
Noam Chomsky
DemocracyPoliticalOthersUnions
Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth.
Angus Deaton
GrowthLegalPoliticalPlayRole
Regardless of your political affiliation, most people agree that Ronald Reagan was an American icon. He was a president of national significance and for that reason he deserves an honor in the nation's capital.
Henry Bonilla
PeopleHonorAmericanPoliticalIcon
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
Rutherford B. Hayes
HappinessIndependencePolitical
Political and economic insecurity inevitably translates into insecurity in people's everyday lives, from lack of access to welfare to the increasing lack of security in the workplace.
Deeyah Khan
PeopleInsecurityPoliticalSecurity
You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.
Peer Steinbruck
TogetherPoliticalMediaLongYou
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
Jennifer Chiaverini
FreedomJusticePoliticalRemember
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
Kenneth Koch
GoodPoetryPoliticalLittleSeems
In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'
Steven Pinker
AgeIdeasPoliticalClassBecome
Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consumption and detrimental effects on health.
Elvis Mitchell
HealthPerspectivePoliticalAlmost
I do think that for a queer person to speak truthfully without shame about their own experiences is political.
Liv Bruce
SpeakThinkPoliticalPersonShame
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.
Aravind Adiga
PowerLimitsPoliticalIndiaStop
If power lies more and more in the hands of corporations rather than governments, the most effective way to be political is not to cast one's vote at the ballot box, but to do so at the supermarket or at a shareholders' meeting. When provoked, corporations respond.
Noreena Hertz
PowerPoliticalHandsMeetingVote
Families in Illinois don't want lies and political mudslinging.
Ann Callis
PoliticalWantLiesFamilies
I've long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can't build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis, and you can't do that if you don't have a healthy environment.
Henry Paulson
EnvironmentalPoliticalLongYou
I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view.
Ruben Blades
CommunicationMusicThinkPolitical
I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either.
Donald Trump
TimePeopleThinkPoliticalProblem
Honestly, I just wear what makes me feel good. It becomes political when you leave the house without changing.
Perfume Genius
GoodMeFeel GoodPoliticalYou
Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model.
Jens Martin Skibsted
PoliticalCannotModelRegardless
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
Leland Stanford
EqualityPoliticalSexSameRights
I don't look to save the world with any of the movies that I make. I'm not trying to make any political statement with the movies I make. I'm trying to have a good time. I'm trying to entertain people.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
GoodTimePeopleWorldPolitical
I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.
Elizabeth Emken
CarePoliticalProblemRepublican
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