#political

What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers. ↗

— Scott Walker

#always #amazing #america #been #careers

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#another way #better #better way #challenge #dare

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#sick #sick and tired #tired

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#citizens #community #democracy #free #free citizens

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#aims #create #our #perfect #political

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#desperately #identity #inarticulate #organization #political

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#came #characters #how #i #kind

If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism. ↗

— Marc Maron

#free-market #liberalism #political-views #poverty #food

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#bottom #bottom line #interests #line #matter

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#balance #based #common #common sense #energy