“Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.” PoliticalNightLeaderEventsAdvantageElectionMandatesInaugurationTaking AdvantageOverreaching Author:Ron Fournier
“My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.” ImportantHomePoliticalNightParentNewsDinnerEvery Night Author:Al Franken
“You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly.” PeopleWantNeedsHomePoliticalNightRealizingHoursDarkViewsLaughingMonthsOne NightPolitical View Author:Billy Gardell
“Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on waking up in the morning, do not need to wonder who might have been arrested during the night and what further acts of blatant injustice might be committed against our people later during the day. Our antennae become highly sensitive to vibrations barely noticed by those whose everyday existence is removed from political struggle.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensDifferentMightFacesPoliticalNightExistenceWonderMorningStruggleOur LivesWake UpEverydayInjusticeCommittedOppressionRhythmSensitiveWakingPersecutionMight Have BeenPersistentVibrationsArrestedWaking Up In The MorningPolitical Struggle Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.” IfsTryingReasonGovernmentPoliticalNightForceSportsLinesMoralMoralityStandardsAreasFlowEntertainmentArmed ForcesSports Entertainment Author:Margaret Halsey
“There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that give us strength for the journey. And there are prayers that yield our will to a will greater than our own.” GivingHelpingHumorLastsPoliticalNightPrayerGreaterJourneyEndureStrangerYieldPolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush
“For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.” MeanMadeEnoughAgeLastsPoliticalNightFallChristTroubleAtheismMiddleEnglandPositive AtheismGlobesMiddle AgesDegradationSteep Book:Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910 Source: Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910