Quotes about Politically

Dams are politically incorrect, even though levees are inherently unstable.

John Doolittle

The government decided that confrontation was not a good solution, and to let it evolve politically.

Jehangir Karamat

[In the green scheme of things, death becomes a vehicle for land conservation and saving the planet.] It is not enough to be a corpse anymore, ... Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.

Thomas Lynch

Brad Campbell is a wonderful person who wants to do right for the environment. If that was all, then we would make Brad a saint. But Brad is also very politically ambitious, very personally ambitious. And he made mistakes.

Jim Sinclair

Politically they are a very aware company. And they are aware that passing G.M. in this political environment is somewhat tricky.

Kurt Sanger

If that's what they're trying to do to stop this in a politically correct way, more power to them.

Ledy Vankavage

One other problem we faced in India is that the regional governments are very strong politically. So even if your company has national license to operate anywhere in the country, you'll still need to get approved for a regional license on top of the national license.

Albrecht Von Truchsess

We still need time to mature politically. It will take time.

Attallah Zeidan

Nick is a tobacco lobbyist who loves his job and doesn't apologize for it, which [as a role] is exciting and fun because it's politically incorrect and titillating — you get great jokes out of it.

Aaron Eckhart

The city played it as a big embarrassment and the only people who ought to be fired are the politicians, that is, the politically appointed chief of police and his assistant.

Marc Hill

Blue guys in red states will see themselves getting killed politically if they vote against it.

David Barton

Politically and philosophically, I'm a conservative. We can be conservative and still be compassionate. It's not just a slogan in Utah.

Marco Diaz

He wants to become the number one opponent of a government that is already weak. This was the only path he could take if he did not want to die politically.

Carlos Larreategui

Increasing the minimum wage is a bad move economically, philosophically and politically.

Marc Freedman

He doesn't beat around the bush. It's refreshing how he's not worried about being politically correct.

Gary Wilson

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Karen Armstrong

The move was politically motivated and followed other aims (than the nuclear dispute).

Javad Vaidi

The decision was made after substantial documentation of not fulfilling his responsibilities. It was hard for Larry; he's going against someone who supported him politically.

Dan Proft

If a county touches the coast, it's going to be very different politically, and the differences are becoming more dramatic. Voters there have a very different attitude about a lot of things.

Darry Sragow

Politically speaking, of course, they have to keep flying it a bit longer. Hopefully, it will close down before they crash it again.

Freeman Dyson

The decision was politically motivated, and I don't respect the attorney general one iota.

Don Bowers

This kind of cooperation is important, and is especially important when times are tough politically.

Jon Purnell

At a time when the governor will be promoting austerity, it would be inappropriate for him politically to, at the same time, spend a lot of money.

Rick Thigpen

It shows how politically motivated both the administration in the United States are and the new Labor government are in pursuing their critics over the Iraq war.

John Reese

We'll have to deal with the cynicism and anything that comes our way politically from the policymakers. But people should realize that anything that is wrong with the science is of no value to us either.

John Gearhart

Politically, this is the biggest meeting that brings together the major nations of the West and Islam.

Richard Martin

Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always conduct themselves politically as if Christianity were just another special-interest group? Do Christians conduct evangelism this way?

Gary North

If women in the developing world do not have equal rights, they will not have equal health, ... It is as simple as that; the empowerment of women is not a politically-correct cliché, but a living, essential goal for everyone.

Richard Holbrooke

They're trying to insinuate this was done politically. None of them would ever let an inmate out of jail to help me. I would never sacrifice anybody for this election. This is total Cook County political bull----.

Richard Remus

John was politically conservative. He was comfortable with it, but it didn't define his friendships.

Richard Lazarus

I hope the students will gain a more critical eye politically.

Rachel Shiffrin

Environmental issues are politically neutral and easy to deal with.

Chung Kim

As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.

Rosie Perez

Our credibility as a community is on the line. We've shown our power politically, but if we can't show it economically we are going to lose it.

Armando Navarro

It's a politically efficient way to respond to people's need to do something. The actual effects are very minimal, and they don't last.

James Spencer

To take on all of the interest groups that he did at the same time — and interest groups that have deep pockets and tremendous numbers of members — may not have been the wisest approach, politically, ... Perhaps it might have been more effective to take on one at a time.

George Deukmejian

At this point, it's clear that the mayor believes that either we are not worthy of the respect offered to other civic organizations and citizens or that the Tom Smith Camp and our purpose is a politically disadvantageous impediment to his re-election.

Lee Hart

This is not going to be politically acceptable to most people.

Dave Alberswerth

Imposing water fees is a sensitive issue in Thailand and it is politically impossible.

Apichart Anukularmphai

We're trying to finesse it politically. We don't want to ruffle any feathers.

Nick Shelton

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Peggy Noonan

Here, insofar as there is discrepancy, it is not like the others that are politically neutral, ... Here, it is patently likely to favor one candidate or another.

Bruce Fein

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.

Henry Miller

Politically, I don't give a damn.

Jonathan Lane

The problems must be solved peacefully and politically, the prisoners must be arrested on legal ground. We are calling on the government to restart the negotiations with the opposition.

Beyene Petros

It's politically easy to suggest it . . . (but) a lot more difficult to implement it.

Phillip Saunders

We thought he was hopelessly politically naive. In retrospect, he may have been more sophisticated than we were.

Dave Van Ronk

I don't think you're going to have the majority of the board's approval, so whether it's fiscally feasible or not, it's politically DOA (dead on arrival) and you're going to have to go back to the drawing board and start over.

Chris Daly

I don't have any aspirations. I guess I would leave that door open just because I know what happens when you say, 'I'll never do that again.' But I really don't have any aspirations to get back involved politically. I love my job right now.

Steve Largent

Prospects are gloomy politically especially with tensions in the opposition MDC party which have dealt a setback in a force that was capable of confronting the government.

Bill Saidi

Going in, I knew we had to win this game. Now I can look at it a little more politically. But everyone in this region thinks they can win on the road. The teams are too good.

Craig Drury

There's no room on the agenda, there's no room in Congress and there's no room politically.

Larry Sabato

The human aspect could have prevailed, everything could have been set aside and acted as an anchor for the great leap they could have taken politically. But they have been the prisoners of the past.

Talat Masood

I think that is very harmful to the nature of our democratic politics because, not unlike the market, competition politically is a healthy sign of a well-functioning democracy.

David Olson

This is the first major test of the new-found environmental ethic of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It should be a simple decision politically and scientifically.

Scott Faber

For Congress and the president, because they have had to make so much money to get elected, their options to implement reform are limited and probably not politically feasible.

Larry Makinson

I don't know exactly how you do this politically.

Commissioner Darryl Steele

Politically, that would be suicide. The time to do it was many years ago.

John Bencomo

Best is politically unachievable, we believe.

Craig Regelbrugge

Our budget maximizes the tax cuts we can afford while remaining fiscally conservative. It is an honest, balanced plan that we can live with both practically and politically.

Charles Stenholm

Because it was sensitive politically and economically.

Ahmed Ressam

They are absolutely hearing it. I'm confident they want to do something, the question is politically if they can work it out behind doors.

Brett Mandel

When you talk to a politician like that, it's hard to get something new out of him. I do think he's intelligent, and the way he thinks must make it hard for him politically.

Louis Menand

I was always impressed with her intellect. She was educated. She was politically astute. That is a very important aspect of leadership: If you are not wise, if you are not familiar with how to deal with people different from yourself, then you can't be an effective leader. She could talk to anyone. She was an effective legislator. She knew how to get legislation passed for those less fortunate.

Ulysses Hammond

We contest that the Centre-Left has won politically, because the House of Freedoms has won the Senate with more than 50 per cent of the votes.

Paolo Bonauiti

The poll numbers are bad. [Hurricane] Katrina is added to other failures. The moderate choices look better politically.

Marci Hamilton

Khartoum supports the Chadian rebels, financially, politically and militarily.

Ahmed Hussein

The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.

John C. Danforth

It remains to be seen whether this is politically useful, but they don't have much else.

Ray Sullivan

Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment and is very unstable politically - knows what it wants: not to become another Nepal.

George Archibald

It's crazy, socially and politically.

Robert Mabro

You had leaders in Congress -- Bob Packwood, a Republican chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and Dan Rostenkowski, the Democratic chairman of House Ways and Means. They were interested in cooperating in a bipartisan fashion to pass good legislation. Obviously, there was something in it for them politically.

Joseph Thorndike

The core concept of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is to serve as a heat shield between Congress and the people's networks. To me it?s a contradiction that a politically-appointed board could fill that role.

Ben Scott

When it comes to finding oil and gas, you tend not to find it in politically bucolic places. So when these companies make commitments, they factor in some of those risks.

John Herrlin

You can't replace these guys. You can't overstate what they mean to the party, politically and policy-wise.

Jeanne Shaheen

We expect these disruptions to be a continuous feature of 2006 oil markets. Shell is the most leveraged and may need to consider asset swaps to dilute its exposure -- both financially and politically.

Jonathan Wright

All these allegations are totally false and politically motivated.

Motilal Vora

Now there's a choice between an on-time budget or a court's directive to fix the New York City schools. That's an extremely politically difficult decision to make.

Thomas Rogers

It is not enough to be a corpse any more. Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.

Thomas Lynch

I shall die a Texas independent. I think that this governor has so politically fractured this state that the only way to get something done is to set aside the partisan politics.

Carole Keeton Strayhorn

He was the prototype for what we're all looking for. He represented the jockey colony with so much dignity and class. He was always politically correct and always said the right things.

D. Wayne Lukas

There'll be a will in the inter-American community to isolate Nicaragua politically and economically if there were this sort of power grab against the elected president of the country by elements of Nicaragua that are behaving very, very irresponsibly, that have put the personal interests of a couple of leaders ahead of the national interest.

Roger Noriega

That may be the politically safest way to run a parole board, but the problem is that it is a manifest perversion of what the legal structure is set up to do.

Franklin Zimring

Conservation programs are very well supported politically these days.

Don Dixon

We offer a place where they can come and talk without any pressure and without feeling like they have to be politically correct.

Melissa Coxwell

I believe that the death tax is politically misguided, morally unjustifiable and downright un-American.

Sanford Bishop

We do not intend to encourage higher courts to consider and possibly create legal precedent that would injure everyday women in the workplace, based on the allegations and evidence of a politically charged case.

Patricia Ireland

He's probably the least politically correct of any of our guys and he doesn't seem to mind inciting a riot in opposing gyms.

Mark Few

It's not about an effort to be politically correct. It is about doing the right thing.

Myles Brand

Sometimes right-of-center parties like deficits because it justifies cutting things. It can be very politically convenient.

Ellen Russell

It's been a little distressing to see the way that this has been politically handled.

Fred Kelly