Quotes About Political

and landowning class in their economic and political fortresses could well afford to be open-minded in order to keep the influx of Indian labor coming.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be.

I trusted Barney's political instincts and concluded that fighting the council proposal would be fruitless.

Merging the SEC and CFTC was a political nonstarter because they were overseen by separate committees in Congress. The

The president has substantial unilateral authority in trade, so political opposition may not prevent him from carrying through on some of his promises.

At the same time, we all knew the frustrations of struggling with extraordinarily complex problems under unrelenting public and political scrutiny.

In worrying about the practical aspects of the plan more than political considerations, I may have been tone-deaf.

Perhaps my low-key approach hurt us politically, but I was not comfortable proceeding in any other way.

We worried that one or both candidates would try to use the crisis for political advantage, complicating any potential deal in the Congress.

I decided not to go. I didn't want to compromise the Fed's political independence by getting involved in the details of legislative disputes.

I didn't always agree with Sheila's views, but I had to admire her political talent.

Europe's leaders hoped not only to promote growth but also to increase political unity,

My experiences in Washington turned me off from political parties pretty much completely. I view myself now as a moderate independent, and I think that's where I'll stay.

The senator believed I was doing a good job but, for political reasons, had to vote against me.

The callers seemed to believe that voting in opposition to their personal views for political reasons was perfectly natural.

I thought of myself as a moderate Republican—liberal on social issues,

Making politically unpopular decisions for the long-run benefit of the country is the reason the Fed exists as a politically independent central bank. It was created for precisely this purpose: to do what must be done—what others cannot or will not do.

Fannie and Freddie also spent some of their profits on lobbying and political contributions, cementing the cozy relationship

But these experts weren't experts on human nature, it turns out: instead, they used science as a catchword for political priorities that maximized centralization.

Most economists oppose minimum wage laws, but that never prevents the laws from being written. The living wage movement lives on, not because of any merit, but because it's a popular political move to back anything that "helps the poor.

I think we can have a rational, political conversation about balancing rights and risks and rewards of all of these different policies, but I don't think that what we need to do is demonize people on the other side as being unfeeling about what happened at Sandy Hook.

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.