A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at… — Hugh Carey Copy Share Image
Only in my case, when my presidency ends, I will go back to my home industrial city town, 800 meters from my… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“All ancient philosophers, poets, and moralists agree that love is a striving, an aspiration of the “lower” toward the “higher,” the “unformed”… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I believe the Democratic Party has got to be firmly on the side of working families, taking on the big money interests,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Everything I do in my political life is colored by my military service. It was the defining moment in my life and… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
“I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“It was Ephialtes, in fact, who initiated democratic reforms that involved paying citizens for jury service. Shortly afterwards, he was assassinated (allegedly… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was… — Anne Cox Chambers Copy Share Image
I've known Al Franken for over 20 years. He is my friend. He was on the floor of the Senate announcing his… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
