“I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.” YearsPoliticalUsedFatherRoomsPartyLeaderSubjectsMembersPrisonCongressBritishFighterEveningLiving RoomUnfamiliarProminentFreedom FighterLocalityCongress Party Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.” ThinkingKnowsMayRunningPoliticalFatherNamesPresidentMiddleBarackKrypton Author:Barack Obama
“But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child. Indeed, if we were to start judging parents on the basis of their political beliefs, we would change the concept of family for the rest of time.” IfsWantChildrenPoliticalFatherBeliefParentJudgingConceptsBasesRaisesPolitical Beliefs Author:Janet Reno
“My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.” PoliticalFatherSaintStatesmenStatesmanshipFunny Fathers Day Author:Indira Gandhi
“Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.” MeanStillsStoriesGovernmentAgeTodayPoliticalFatherIndividualSocialWealthResponsibilityRightsCenturyIdealsRootsBillsDemocraticSubstanceFoundingLicensePolitical SystemsBill Of RightsRobbersGildedGilded AgeRobber Baron Author:Bill Moyers
“In my work, you get used to criticisms. Of course you do, because there are a lot of people trying to get you down, but I always cheer up immensely if one is particularly wounding because I think well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. That is why my father always taught me: never worry about anyone who attacks you personally; it means their arguments carry no weight and they know it.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingWellsMeanPoliticalUsedCoursesFatherLeftWorryTaughtArgumentCriticismWeightCheerCheer UpPolitical Arguments Author:Margaret Thatcher
“I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.” ShouldChildrenPoliticalFatherBornAirSubjectsSweetMy ChildrenCountrymen Author:William Cobbett
“During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.” LongChristianPoliticalFatherCareersPerspectiveCommunicateActiveEvangelical Author:Preston Manning
“Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.” PeopleIfsMenWellsSelfCountryWisdomGovernmentPoliticalFatherPoliticsIndividualSocialWealthLibertyEnemyEconomySawsRightsEconomicRepublicanSucceedUnderstoodFlowPropertyInsightExperimentsLiberalismEnterpriseFoundingOur Founding FathersPolitical PowerFree EnterpriseIndividual LibertySelf-governmentEconomic Power Author:Ronald Reagan
“As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?” ThinkingFilmPoliticalFatherLiteraturePossibilityCommitmentOrganizationSupportiveEvaluate Book:Civil Wars Source: Civil Wars
“The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. People who understand history, especially the history of government, do well to fear it. For a people to express openly their fear of those of us who are afraid of tyranny is alarming. Fear of the state is in no sense subversive. It is, to the contrary, the healthiest political philosophy for a free people.” PeopleWellsCountryStatesPhilosophySeemsGovernmentPoliticalCertainFatherDangerousMastersGunContraryCirclesTyrannyTendenciesConclusionOur CountryServantFearfulPolitical PhilosophySubversive Author:Jeff Cooper
“This sutura gives example about the purpose of relationship. A son of enemy who wants to uproot his own father, should be treated as friend and shold be protected. This may be called opportunism but is and should be necessary part of polity and statesmanship. Moreover, if a father is not aan upright man to have friendship with his sone can be a meritorious peson. So it is better to protecdt him.” IfsMenWantGivingShouldMayPoliticalPurposeFatherEnemyExampleSonTreatedProtectedStatesmanshipOpportunismUpright Man Author:Chanakya
“I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.” TryingYearsPoliticalFatherThrowingPolitical Science Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.” StillsMatterHomeSeemsPoliticalFatherModernPoliticianCandidatesCastles Author:Rose Kennedy