“But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.” WayRealRealitySeemsHappensLawPoliticalSufferingChoicesNationsSinPayLeaderClassCareersCasesSpecialEmotionalPagesServantContinuingUnjustTornVeteranPtsdJuniorsExhibitsPolitical PowerCongressmanPublic ServantsLawmakersTorn ApartAlbatrossHistory ClassFuture Careers Author:Leon Kass
“My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.” YearsMindHumansStatesUseFormPoliticalJoyWishUnitedRaceUnited StatesBirthPagesAbuseIndependenceInstitutionsHuman RaceMemorableHuman MindDestinedSolemnEpochPolitical InstitutionsFestivitiesBest Wishes Author:John Adams
“There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of evasion, and I have problems with this. I believe poetry has always been political, long before poets had to deal with the page and white space . . . it's natural.” PeopleThinkingBelieveLongWholeMomentsProblemPoliticalI BelieveNaturalSpaceWhiteDealsPoetPagesSamenessEvasionAmerican PoetryThis I BelieveWhite Space Author:Yusef Komunyakaa
“I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.” MayHas BeensArtTwoBookRunningPoliticalFoundSocialMy OwnMembersPagesCongressPhilosopherLawyerCampaignsBackgroundsHistorianYellowAcademicThreatenedTelephonesLiberal ArtsGood Lawyer Book:Up'til Now: A Memoria Source: Up'til Now: A Memoria
“I think what gives me hope is I have the sense that the people of Kenya have turned the page. They are keen to get a new political dispensation. They are keen to fight corruption and impunity, and in that sense they are leaving the political elite behind.” PeopleThinkingGivingPoliticalFightingBehindsPagesGive MeLeavingCorruptionElitesKenyaImpunity Author:Kofi Annan
“Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit. So I mean, we have this debate with political parties involved whether we should forbid the burkini yes or no, and this was in the media, you know, front page for days and days and days. This is wildly exaggerated. And people that don't live for instance in Montreal, where they don't have a diverse population, they think this is a real problem.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldKindMeanRealProblemPoliticalPartyMediaFrontsInvolvedSummerPagesPopulationDebateInstanceSuitsDiversePolitical PartiesExaggeratedReal ProblemsBathingMontrealQuebecYes Or NoBathing Suits Author:Andre Pratte
“My original book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] was 1,700 pages. The first editor brought it down to 700; there was a lot that didn't make it in. But at last it's finished. I had a hard time signing off on it. And I was worried about it hurting anyone I loved even indirectly. I sat in my room afterwards for two hours wondering what I had done. I wondered about it being judged and if people would understand.” PeopleIfsFirstsHeartTwoBookHardDoneLastsPoliticalHoursHurtRoomsWonderPagesOriginalsFinishedWorriedSatHard TimesEditorsJudgedSigningBeing JudgedSigning Off Author:Angela Alioto
“Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.” PoliticalForceCommunityOpinionInvolvedPaperPagesLocalsIdeologyIntroducingGet InvolvedProvocativeEditorialsPolitical Ideology Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.” TodayPoliticalTurnsHappenedPeriodsPagesSignificantSixty Author:Jerry Saltz
“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.” MayImportantPoliticalReligionAtheismKeysCivilizationBehaviorMassPagesWesternAtheistMurdererWestern Civilization Author:Robert Anton Wilson