“I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.” ThinkingCountryPoliticalHouseStrongLeaderWonderfulLessonsToughSpeakersPolitical LeadersNancy Author:Ellen Malcolm
“People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.” PeopleThinkingMenHumansWellsMayPhilosophyLawPoliticalLife IsForceLeaderStruggleHuman NatureCivilizationToughSurfaceSelfishSuperiorsGrantedSpiteRealisticBusinessmanJungleCunningInfluentialPolitical LeadersCaliberRuthlessnessVeneerLife Is A Struggle Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“Bush's life is that a fundamentally decent man presided over a moment when politics got meaner and rougher. '88 was the year of the handler, of bringing in political consultants who played very hard and very tough.” MenYearsHardMomentsPoliticalLife IsToughDecentConsultantsDecent Man Author:Evan Thomas
“For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.” WayFeelsShouldPersonsDoeCharacterPoliticalActorsResponsibilityTough Author:Emma Stone
“Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from.” IfsHumorPoliticalWinningToughOpponentsAlsPacksGorePolitical HumorIncumbentsIncumbency Author:George W. Bush
“I've got a great sense of where I want to lead and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the call on that speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough campaign.” KnowsWantHumorRunningPoliticalSpeechComfortableToughCampaignsPolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush
“It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.” AbleMovingPoliticalStuffEmotionalToughIntelligentTricksCommentary Author:Jodie Foster
“I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.” ThinkingPoliticalBreakFieldsPaperToughNewspapersPapersReluctantCartoonist Author:Bill Watterson
“We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough job... It can perhaps be done if you stand united and work with me in putting sustained pressure on the protagonists or the parties to come together and seek a political settlement.” IfsDoneTogetherJobsPoliticalSidesUnitedPartySituationToughPressureComplexesOppositionDivisionSettlementProtagonists Author:Kofi Annan
“We are neck and neck but there will be a very - it will be a very tough campaign in the last ten days. We must be very open and sincere with the Greek people. They should know what they could really expect. I think all of these old political logic is dead. We have to be honest, open and determined to get the Greeks out of this crisis.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldLastsPoliticalHonestTenToughLogicCrisisDeterminedCampaignsBeing HonestGreekNecksSincere Author:Dora Bakoyannis
“...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.” ShouldMadePoliticalDecisionToughPressureIntenseUrgentUnpopular Decisions Author:Tom McClintock
“Every political contest is hard, that's part of the DNA in America. We make it really tough to run for and hold the highest and hardest job in our country.” CountryHardRunningJobsAmericaPoliticalHighestToughHardestOur CountryContestsDnaHardest Job Author:Hillary Clinton
“I try as hard as possible not to be pessimistic because I have never thought or believed that creating a Nigerian nation would be easy; I have always known that it was going to be a very tough job. But I never really thought that it would be this tough. And what's going on now, which is a subjection of this potentially great country to a clique of military adventurers and a political class that they have completely corrupted - this is really quite appalling. The suffering that they have unleashed on millions of people is quite intolerable.” PeopleTryingCountryHardWould BeJobsPoliticalSufferingNationsEasyKnownClassMillionsMilitaryCreatingToughPessimisticAdventurerGreat CountryUnleashedCliqueSubjection Author:Chinua Achebe
“I think it could get passed in a lame duck? Probably tough. But impossible? No, or I wouldn't be wasting my time. It's going to take some leadership, and it takes a time where leadership is more important than people's political career at times.” PeopleThinkingImportantPoliticalCareersImpossibleToughMy TimeDucksLameWasting My Time Author:John Kasich
“Political scientist Herfried Münkler is right: If you only take normative positions, if your focus is solely on values, you won't find success in a world where others are relentlessly pursuing their interests. In a world full of meat-eaters, vegetarians have a tough time.” WorldPoliticalValuesInterestFocusToughScientistVegetarianTough Times Author:Sigmar Gabriel
“Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.” PoliticalToughWarriorBarack Author:Jon Meacham
“Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.” PeopleLongWholeHomeWould BeTodayLawYoungPoliticalOrderSocialCommunityLeaderPracticeSupportImagineStreetsAchieveSecurityCrimeBenefitsToughResourcesCriticismLonelyRaisesThreatViolentVulnerableSuspectsScarRhetoricShut UpCultBullySocial SecurityElderlyLaw And OrderPolitical LeadersMatchedSocial ServicePredatoryYoung Life Author:Margaret Thatcher