political actions Quotes

Politicians should be judged on their actions, rather than necessarily their views on scripture.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

Every person in America will know what Donald Trump said and what he is doing.

Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.

Maybe we shouldn't be too dependent on politicians trying to make us believe that we are safe only because of their actions.

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

Europe and America should judge Georgia's leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will transform Georgia into a dictatorship.

You forget, living outside of a country, that the actions of the government are not the actions of the people.

They had a profile of John Kerry on the news and they said his first wife was worth around $300 million and his second wife, his current wife, is worth around $700 million. So when John Kerry says he's going after the wealthy in this country, he's not just talking. He's doing it!

When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this moment.

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or another.

Reading a teleprompter is not what makes you presidential. It's your actions that you take, and it's democracy.

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

In the first two years this is a man [Clinton] who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn’t those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?

The point to me is not what Donald Trump is saying because we keep reacting to just things he says in his tweets. What he is doing is important.

I think Donald knows climate change is a serious threat - but he only cares about protecting his luxury coastal properties, not the rest of America. Observing his actions as they relate to his business interests offers the best insight into the man behind the bluster.

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.

Hillary Clinton, all talk. Unfortunately when there is action it's always the wrong decision.

Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it comes to domestic and foreign policy, they make the same decisions that are destructive to African people in this country and throughout the world.

It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.

Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine like those of Kant or Mill. You could characterize this political good as the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another: the duty to give citizens public reasons for one's political actions.

Ronald Reagan thundered against Soviet perfidy for the television cameras … the substantive measures he took against the Soviets were remarkably modest.

If [Donald Trump] wants to do good things, let's see it. Let him do it. I can't stop him from doing good things.

From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.