#political

Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#accomplish #achieving #advocating #candidates #conflicting

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so. ↗

— John Barry

#certainly #codes #federal #federal tax #law

Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it. ↗

— Craig Benson

#answers #better #better ways #come #different

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#ancient #bigger #clearly #every #filtered

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#freeing #give #mind #never #political

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation. ↗

— Susie Bright

#course #feminism #followed #got #i

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#based #few #ignorance #imposed #knowledge

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human. ↗

— Clancy Brown

#atrocities #beliefs #color #creed #happen

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#any #battle #campaigns #character #heat

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation. ↗

— Criss Jami

#attractiveness #compassion #comprehensive #defamation #discernment