#politic

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#another day #barack #care #cared #comes

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#i think #kind #new #old #people

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#burning #concern #constant #dedication #democracy

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends. ↗

— Billy Ocean

#audience #cannot #doctor #doing #feeling

I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political. ↗

— William Odom

#bin #both #drain #huge #i

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it. ↗

— William Odom

#beyond #come #context #decided #deterioration

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics. ↗

— William Odom

#i #politics #presidents #served #under

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#dishonest #kind #left #only #ought

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. ↗

— Ben Okri

#away #both #common #doing #draw

Political correctness has become a straightjacket. ↗