Top 1200 Political Promises Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice's decision to retire, far more important than the party of the President or which political party has control of the Senate.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there were only two things you could do: conceptual analysis or empirical investigation. Any kind of political theory or even ethical theory was nonsense.

The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle.

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.

God has promised to help us, and God always keeps His promises.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.

Ma Ying-jeou tends to use cross-strait policy as an election tool and a political tool, too, and my position is that we don't use that as a political tool because that is an issue that is critical and essential to the interests of the Taiwanese people.

I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.

The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.

If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

But druggies don't keep their looks any longer than they keep their promises.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands.

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate, can change the political and social life of the country..it is up to political organization..and not to romantic literature.. to change the present situation.

We do not have many women leaders in the world. But if you look at the current examples, most of those few female leaders that we have today lead their countries under the pressure of difficult political and economic circumstances. They all posses strong personalities and have real political influence on the domestic and international scene.

To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.

See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In promises anyone can be rich.

When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.

Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting.

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

I think The New Yorker's cartoons aren't very political because the people who do the cartoons aren't awfully political people, and they aren't paid to be political. I think editorial cartoonists are. That's what they do. They probably have a great natural interest in politics, and then they are paid to do it, so they sort of have to hunt out these ideas. I admire editorial cartoons, but I'm also sort of happy that I don't do them because I'd hate to have to label things and I'd especially hate, more than anything, to label something Dennis Hastert or Mark Foley.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic power held by citizens, and the broad diffusion of privately owned economic power.

The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

I'm fighting for people who cannot wait for changes, and I'm not making promises that I cannot keep.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.

Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do to fight back to defend our Republic. This is a must-see movie for anyone who cares about the cause of democracy and the promise of political equality for all.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

A brand should live up to the expectations of people; it should deliver what it promises.

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.

You've got to look at the promises I kept. It's not just talking about doing things: it's doing them.

We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises.

In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.