Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.
Joy Harjo
SoulPoetryPoliticalMy SoulSaid
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Anthony Trollope
HonestyManSlowPoliticalBecome
Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on the rest of the region. For better or worse, it will lead the rest of the Middle East by example. So goes Egypt, so goes the region.
Richard Engel
InfluenceRestBetterPoliticalWill
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
Jeanne Shaheen
PoliticsReligionThinkPolitical
By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
FeetGenerationVotingPoliticalNew
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
Martin Sheen
FuturePoliticalYouPartyAskUs
I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.
Chiranjeevi
WorkPoliticalI CanWayBigger
The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change.
Sheldon Whitehouse
ChangeFaceAmericanPoliticalParty
Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.
John Doolittle
WinPoliticalRhetoricTalkSome
The idea that somewhere in the desert far away you have a CO2 absorber that's removing the CO2 from the air is an attractive one. It's a costly process that many will say is too expensive, but so are fuel cells in cars. It's a matter of political will to move this forward.
Klaus Lackner
DesertForwardProcessPoliticalYou
The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.
Tucker Carlson
ArtFeelPoliticalYouYourSecond
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
David Novak
PoliticalTurnModernCenturyJews
The FARC has given up their arms. They are now a political party. They are now doing politics, which is what a peace process was all about.
Juan Manuel Santos
PoliticsPeacePoliticalDoingParty
Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
Annette Bening
ResponsibilityPoliticalImportant
John Kerry is going to have a rough tenure as secretary of state. But let's face it: whoever came after Hillary Clinton was going to have to deal with a foreign affairs press corps that has been sleeping for four years. From the moment Hillary entered Foggy Bottom, political reporters have treated their beloved secretary of state with kid gloves.
Richard Grenell
MomentFacePoliticalSleepingKid
I said I'm going to vote for Hillary. But my philosophy is that everything's workable. If Trump is president, I'll work with that guy. I don't know if he's terrible or what. He's refreshing in that he doesn't speak in that political way. I don't quite understand why everybody hates Hillary so much.
Jeff Bridges
WorkSpeakPoliticalPhilosophyKnow
The definition of political cinema is one I don't agree with, because every film, every show, is typically political in nature. Political cinema is simply the brainchild of bad journalists.
Gian Maria Volonte
NaturePoliticalBadCinemaAgree
What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple.
Mary Beard
SimplePoliticalDebateComplicated
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Christopher Lasch
HopePoliticsLiePoliticalNew
It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.
Sheri Fink
NaturePastStoryBetterPolitical
In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.
Andrew O'Hagan
ChildrenGreatPoliticalTalking
After about the age of 13, I was a romance addict. Still am, though I read just about every other genre as well. The only thing I really shy away from is political thrillers.
Kristan Higgins
AgePoliticalShyRomanceWellJust
Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
Tony Snow
PeoplePoliticalPerfectSometimes
Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!
David Pratt
YourselfPoliticalOfficeHonest
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