#political

The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#bring #does #down #focus #gdp

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#expensive #political #wars #winners

I'm a political conservative. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#i #political

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily. ↗

— Gary North

#apparent #bribe #cheek #christian #fact

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#acts #aesthetic #also #always #arena

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ↗

— Michael Novak

#democracy #designed #each #institutions #noise

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

#active #avoid #being #black #carefully

Political correctness has become a straightjacket. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#correctness #political #political correctness

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#been #change #country #dictatorships #difficult

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#banner #conscience #demands #external #freedom