#political

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#around #breathe #eat #his #hollywood

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#bright #empty #fill #hole #interesting

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#airplane #created #environment #foreign #governments

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#economically #interdependent #longer #national #national sovereignty

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#enjoy #entertainer #get #going #i

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#illuminates #important #obscures #personification #political

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#advocate #challenge #conviction #coup #even

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#kind #lines #people #political #put

I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#also #am #competitiveness #confident #crisis

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#deeper #europe #favour #i #i am