Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.
I do believe it is true that the people of India regard the prime minister as the most important political leader.
Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.
The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.
As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
We really need to move to a bit of a post-partisan world where we actually start solving problems and stop kind of living in a country where the political leaders act like half the country is entirely wrong about everything they believe and increasingly try to pit American against American.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first administration.
The challenge is to open a new page in our political life and to take action so that everyone is able to find his or her place in France and in Europe.
Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
