Politics should be about politics, not tribal ties
My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.
You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.
The FBI continues to work with tribes through the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 to help tribal governments better address the unique public safety challenges and disproportionately high rates of violence and victimization in many tribal communities.
Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.
Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.
Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet.
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.
There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.