“Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.” PeopleShouldStatesProblemRealityPoliticalPoliticsNatureCommunityLeadershipJusticeAnswersDemocracyFocusFailingSecurityPolicySeriousWeaponsEthicsStrategyClimateHuman RightsExtremesTerrorismNuclearWeatherIdeologyForeign PolicyNuclear WeaponsFloodNational SecurityDiplomacyDisruptionDroughtInstabilityGood QuestionsExtreme WeatherPolitical Instability Author:Van Jones
“In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.” PeopleWellsSaidTwoStatesRealityAmericaPoliticalPoliticsPresidentCommunityLeadershipJusticeUnitedPartyHistoryUnited StatesDemocracyIssuesHuman NaturePolicyHealthMonthsMajorsEthicsConstitutionElectionStrategyUnityCampaignsIdeologyVotingSpokesPolitePolitical PartiesCivilityObamacareTwo MonthsDismay2012 ElectionAca Author:John McCain
“I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane. The legislators who leave that policy in place are derelict in their duties to be rational and fair. There are plenty of them in both political parties. It's totally outrageous.” ThinkingIdeasPoliticalPartyPolicyDutyTaxesFairsPhysicsRationalInsanePlentyManagersFundDriversProfessorsPolitical PartiesOutrageousTaxiLegislatorsHedge FundDerelict Author:Charlie Munger
“I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.” YearsCountryStatesTodayPoliticalPoliticsCommunityUnitedViewsPartyTechnologyUnited StatesDemocracyGenerationsPolicyListeningRepublicanEthicsDemocratHuman RightsIndividualityTerrorismEastIdeologyFree SpeechPolitical PartiesDisobedienceBerlinCivil DisobedienceGridsEast Berlin Author:Jesse Ventura
“Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA.” DoeRealityPoliticalReligionPoliticsJesusSpeakChurchPartyPolicyMembersConstitutionSeparationIdeologyFree SpeechPolitical PartiesChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateGeorgiaSpeak EnglishPartisanshipNra Author:Robert Wright
“Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.” MatterStatesLawPoliticalPresidentPolicyAreasAffairLaw EnforcementEnforcementSpectrumPolitical SpectrumDomestic Policy Author:David K. Shipler
“Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .” PeopleWantWarCountryMatterPoliticalSimpleCommonLeaderPolicyHuman RightsDetermineTrialsPropagandaNew WorldDragDictatorshipVietnam WarFreedom And LibertyFascistsNew World OrderFreedom LibertyWorld OrderDemocracies HaveExposingPacifistConspiracy TheoryPeacemakerPacifismHuman FreedomRights And FreedomsNwoBiddingReligion And PoliticsPolitical FreedomMedia ManipulationDemocracy FreedomLiberty And EqualityGoeringReligion PoliticsHistorical MilitaryDemocracy And Human RightsMedia PropagandaWar PropagandaPatriotism And WarPolitics And WarEngland And AmericaWar Of 1812Communist Leaders Author:Hermann Goring
“The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist.” WorldWayWantIdeasWarAmericaPoliticalReligiousOpinionEnemyMiddlePolicyParticularArmsBattleAspectIsraelTerroristSuitsMessTroopsLocksEasternCantSurrealSave The WorldAnti SemiticAnti-americanPolitical OpinionsAmerican TroopsNexus Author:John le Carre
“Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act or policy are rarely those who struggled for it, and the people who are injured are rarely those who opposed it.” PeoplePoliticalPolicyIgnoranceParticularConflictConsequenceUniversalInjured Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?” ShouldSaidRealityWould BeTodayJobsPoliticalPoliticsCommunityHoursWorkMoneyPartyPovertyHistoryCasesEconomyPolicyCostCapitalismEconomicsDemocratIdeologyReportsMinimumPolitical PartiesMinimum WagePartisanshipForeseen Author:S. E. Cupp
“I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.” PeopleKnowsLifeLongPoliticalPolicyInspireConfidenceSkillsConcernCombinationFairnessInnateLong LifePersonal Touch Author:William J. Clinton
“Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.” PeopleShouldMeanEnoughSchoolFilmLawPoliticalActorsDealsOpinionGoneHavensPolicyEducatedExpertsPlatformsLaw School Author:Angelina Jolie
“The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.” Has BeensUsePoliticalPolicyOperationsLabourDisputes Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.” PeopleHumansWellsGovernmentTogetherLawPoliticalHousePoliticsInterestPolicyExampleMassTyrannyOperationsSentimentsStrongestRulersRepresentativesCommunionDegeneratesHouse Of Representatives Author:James Madison
“I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality. You are always representing human beings, their fears, their shortcomings, their braveries, their doubts, their loves, their abilities, their brilliance and those things inevitably lead to bigger political systems, foreign policy and crime and religion. It's an action film. We are not taking a stance about big government.” WantHumansMeanMatterStoriesBigsRealityGovernmentActionFilmPoliticalHuman BeingsAbilityDoubtCrimePolicyBiggerBraveryNo Matter WhatForeign PolicyBrillianceShortcomingsRepresentingPolitical SystemsStanceBig GovernmentAction Films Author:Colin Farrell
“The implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a World Organization. . .Political unification in some sort of World Government will be required. . .Even though. . . any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.” WorldYearsMindMayGovernmentCarePoliticalNationsIssuesImpossiblePolicyOrganizationRadicalStakesSovereigntyImplicationsTransfersEugenicsUnthinkableWorld GovernmentUnificationThinkable Author:Julian Huxley
“One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.” WorldFirstsPoliticalNationsPolicyEssentialsCooperation Author:Arthur Henderson
“When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.” EndsGovernmentJobsPoliticalOrderPresidentViewsMilitaryPolicyConstitutionTablesThe End Of The DayServingSwearVolunteerOathPolitical View Author:Nathaniel Fick
“Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum of the business-dominated consensus, it is possible for populate action to have a significant impact on policy, though indirectly. That was an important lesson for the Indochina Wars.” ImportantWarStatesActionPoliticalUnitedPartyUnited StatesPolicyLessonsImpactPressesSignificantOppositionPolitical PartiesConsensusSpectrumImportant LessonsIndochina Author:Noam Chomsky
“The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil against good in which 'terrorism' simply signified 'any doubt about the policies or character of Stalin.' All his political opponents were per se assassins. More than two 'terrorists' was a 'conspiracy'.” TwoCharacterShowsPoliticalUniverseEvilLanguageDoubtPolicyUnderstoodTerrorismTerroristTrialsOpponentsSovietConspiracyImageryAssassinsBolsheviksPolitical Opponents Author:Simon Sebag-Montefiore
“One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.” MeanStatesPoliticalGroupsPolicyTheoryElectionInvestmentSentencesOccasionsInvestorsEconomistOutstandingFerguson Author:Noam Chomsky
“In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's a great reverence for history - though it's history as thumb-sucking, security blanket-nibbling self-congratulation.” SelfSeemsAmericaPoliticalAttentionSecurityPolicyTheoryExerciseReverenceForeign PolicyCongratulationsThumbsBlanketPolitical TheoryNibbling Author:Simon Schama
“In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy security will be one of the main challenges of foreign policy in the years ahead. Oil and gas have always been political commodities.” WorldYearsCountryPoliticalEnergyChallengesSecurityPolicyDependsRelationOilManageGasForeign PolicyCommodityInterdependenceOil And GasEnergy Security Author:Daniel Yergin
“I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.” HumansKindProblemPoliticalHuman BeingsPolicyCandidatesDimensionsNuanceParametersBriefing Author:James Carville
“I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.” PoliticalLeaderPolicyMakersPolitical LeadersPolicy Makers Author:Paul Ryan
“Most of my work for the past 25 years has been devoted to organizing demonstrations, benefits and campaigns, many of which have had the effect of bringing a policy debate to public focus or moving a political agenda forward. It's become a cliché to say 'think globally and act locally,' but it works.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensPastMovingPoliticalFocusEffectsPolicyBenefitsCampaignsDebateAgendasDevotedDemonstrationPolitical AgendasPolicy Debate Author:Peter Yarrow
“America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.” PeopleHas BeensIdeasAmericaPoliticalDiesBeliefRichPolicyKeysTaxesLowsEvidenceProsperityRefuseLandscapeAnalysisZombieRich PeopleProminentInsistence Author:Paul Krugman
“Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.” PoliticalPolicyBenefitsFavorsReformOrganizePolitical Change Author:Joel Miller
“Our world today is in the grip of anti-capitalism. State bureaucracies ruling over anti-market policies have grown into ideological and political elites who arrogantly presume to know and dictate how we should all live and work.” KnowsWorldShouldStatesTodayPoliticalPolicyCapitalismOur WorldElitesBureaucracyRulingWorld TodayIdeological Author:Richard Ebeling
“Bloomberg says in this poll, leaders from across the political spectrum have condemned this policy, saying banning members of an entire religion from entering the country goes against everything we believe in as Americans, and it will make our country less safe by alienated the allies we need to fight ISIS.” NeedsBelieveCountryPoliticalFightingLeaderPolicySafeMembersOur CountryAlliesEnteringPollsSpectrumIsisPolitical Spectrum Author:Steve Inskeep
“Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.” PeopleWantWholeGovernmentPoliticalEffortCompanyPolicyProducePicksCompetitionProtectionWinnerEnterpriseGoodsLoserArenaOpposingFree EnterpriseSubsidiesGoods And ServicesWinner And Loser Author:Charles Koch
“. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in which the idea of free-markets succeeded first, and then special events catalyzed a complete change of socio-political policy in countries around the world by Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom.” ThinkingWorldFirstsIdeasCountryPoliticalRolesSpecialCenturyEventsPolicyLateSocialismAround The WorldCyclesAdamCollapseFree MarketTwentieth CenturyHayekRoad To SerfdomFriedrich HayekSpecial Events Author:Milton Friedman
“If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?” PoliticalInterestPowerDemocracyFivePolicyPoliticianExerciseAccountabilityInterest Groups Author:Tony Benn
“All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.” LightActionLawPoliticalStrugglePolicyNeededWindowClimateProtectionListsPhasesMaking ChangesTreatiesCivicsBulbsLight BulbPolitical Action Author:Al Gore
“I think it`s going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.” ThinkingImportantPoliticalPolicyOpeningCubaHemisphere Author:Joy-Ann Reid
“I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.” PeoplePoliticalTurnsIssuesPolicyPoliticianLike MePerceiveReportersTurn Me Author:Jose Antonio Vargas
“President Ahmadinejad said that the Zionist state of Israel should no longer exist as a political entity. This has always been the policy of successive Iranian governments such as those of President Khatami and President Rafsanjani.” ShouldSaidStatesGovernmentPoliticalPresidentPolicyIsraelEntityIranianZionist Author:Mohammad Marandi
“I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.” PeopleWritingWarRealShowsWantedPoliticalPolicyReaderEssentialsEconomicsEverydayBoundsDetailsReal LifeSpheresForeign PolicyEveryday Life Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike.” NeedsPoliticalInterestPolicyInstrumentsRateCongressRelativeApprovalAutonomyMonetaryInterest RateCentral BanksMonetary Policy Author:Mohamed El-Erian
“I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.” YearsStatesPoliticalIssuesCrimePolicySpeechFocusedForeign PolicyInitiativeLegislationPolitical Speeches Author:Joe Biden
“Part of the French political class is realising that there is are large number of Muslim people coming from the ghettos who want to make themselves heard, politically, especially about foreign policy issues. Its electoral weight can bring back to the forefront the Palestinian issue.” PeopleWantPoliticalNumbersClassIssuesHeardPolicyWeightRealisingForeign PolicyPalestinianGhettoLarge Numbers Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.” PoliticalOpportunityPolicyThreatComplicatedCampsReferendums Author:Martin Schulz
“I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the American people.” PeopleWantUsePoliticalPolicyPositionJudgingCourtSupremeAgendasSupreme CourtPreferencePolitical Agendas Author:John Cornyn
“The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.” PeopleWould BePoliticalIssuesPolicyIndependentCourtBranches Author:Sam Brownback
“I made policy decisions based on what I thought was right that keep Americans safe and to protect U.S. interests abroad. No wild political attacks by Donald Trump is going to change that.” MadePoliticalInterestDecisionPolicyTrumpProtectSafe Author:Hillary Clinton
“The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.” MayCountryStatesPoliticalUsedUnitedUnited StatesStrugglePolicyIncludingInternalsForeign PolicyOther CountriesPolitical Struggle Author:Vladimir Putin
“Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.” PoliticalDecisionEconomicPolicyFunctionDecision MakingVacuumsEconomic Policy Author:Manmohan Singh