“Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.” PoliticalPresidentDealsVicesVice PresidentDelegatesBidenSlapping Author:Ron Fournier
“You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their constituents and others.” PeopleRealityPoliticalProcessDealsVoteHearingConstituents Author:Marco Rubio
“If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.” IfsWayActionPoliticalDealsStreetsMovementWallUnionsCollaborationPolitical ActionOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Movement Author:David Harvey
“Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.” PoliticalDealsTasteElectionAccountingPolitical Election Book:The Will Rogers book Source: The Will Rogers book
“The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory... "The supremacy of corporate economic power... consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation... [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors.” WorldWellsPoliticalOrderIndividualDecisionDealsEconomicDirectorsCourtPropertySupremeCorporateCorporationsOwnersTerritoryAmendmentsProtectedSupreme CourtCompetingArenaSupremacyLouisianaEconomic PowerNew DealCorporate WorldEconomic OrderCourt DecisionFourteenth Amendment Author:C. Wright Mills
“We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high levels of entrepreneurship. And we have the best universities in the world. ... We also have impeccable credit. What we don't have is a political system that can take the simple measures to deal with our short-term deficit.” WorldPoliticalTermSimpleLevelsDealsCompanyUniversityCreditEntrepreneurshipDeficitShort TermPolitical SystemsHigh LevelImpeccable Author:Fareed Zakaria
“Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.” ProblemPoliticalPoliticsDeals Author:Margaret Thatcher
“Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow.” DoeImportantCountryPoliticalDealsEconomicElementsResourcesWake UpBlowPoolContinentsPullingUnclesWoeBail Author:Bernard Membe
“I believe that everything is political, and as such it should concern all of us. Authors who claim they don't deal with politics in their work are being naive, because even that is a political stance.” ShouldBelievePoliticalPoliticsI BelieveDealsConcernClaimsNaiveStance Author:Elena Poniatowska
“Svanaja includes in itself the whole subject, officials and ministers. If there is something wrong in the conduct of these people, it would be damaging the state. An administrator should strictly deal with it.” PeopleIfsShouldStatesWholeWould BePoliticalDealsSubjectsMinistersOfficialsAdministrators Author:Chanakya
“China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.” Has BeensRealWholeMovingPoliticalForceDealsRolesEconomyTakenGrowingProgressEconomicMiracleDemocraticChinaRussiaPolitical SystemsDemocratic SocietyEconomic Progress Author:Milton Friedman
“I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.” I CanIdeasProblemFilmPoliticalDealsOne ThingSellsWorking It Author:Shane Carruth
“Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.” PoliticalSocialDealsRecoveryReformDedicationSocial ReformNew Deal Author:Michael Parenti
“If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.” IfsLooksGovernmentRunningPoliticalUsedWaterDealsRightsLandGunClaimsSlaveFavorsViolentFundGoodsEpisodesTradingSpeculationIndigenousAcquisitionCrookedMineralsOpiumIndigenous PeopleUnsafePayoffTraffickingGenealogyExterminationVouchersBootlegging Author:Michael Parenti
“There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.” PeoplePoliticalDealsSupportPolicyPressureDenyUnnecessaryAbstinenceCondom Author:Hillary Clinton