“If you want to look at a purely socialized health care, you would have to go to the United States, where we have it. In particular, that's the system we reserve for our veterans. So if I hear politicians run down socialized medicine - and I have done that before the Congress - I say: Do you hate your veterans? Why do you reserve purely socialized medicine - there's only the U.S. and Cuba that have that - for the veterans? So getting the terms right would be very, very helpful in our national conversation on health reform.” DoneCareRunningHateTermPoliticianHealth CareHelpfulVeteranHate You Author:Uwe Reinhardt
“Coverage of Iraq has plummeted, because people in power no longer want to talk about it suddenly. Journalists should be over there demanding front-page coverage, lead-story coverage every day. They should be demanding that no politician running for federal office can go to bed until they say what the hell they're going to do about Iraq and what how accountable they are for it.” PeopleRunningHellPoliticianOfficeJournalist Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.” FirstsLongRunningGamesPoliticsPoliticianBeatsPatienceIntellectLong RunsRequirementsStaminaHaresTortoises Author:John Major
“Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.” PeopleSelfRunningPoliticalDutyPoliticianJuryPolitical SystemsJury Duty Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.” PeopleProblemRunningMovingInterestSpecialPoliticianCaliforniaSpecial Interests Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger