I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.
Pennsylvania is a very tough state people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.
Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts 24/7 propagating Religious Right politics along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.
I believe in the separation of church and state but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.
Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
Our party is a diverse one as is my home state of Illinois.
If a politician murders his mother the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
The United States brags about its political system but the President says one thing during the election something else when he takes office something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people to whom they belong.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Conservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections they want observers.
Literature is a state of culture poetry is a state of grace before and after culture.
Once every five hundred years or so a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally but reason does not relieve us of them.
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things but they are the state of human existence.
For me poetry is a situation - a state of being a way of facing life and facing history.
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development and epitomizes both.
President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security.
The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution built on international law for sustainable peace and development and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.
Only the change on the international scene the crisis in the gulf and the strong firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat the leader of the PLO the representative of the Palestinian people with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state entity next to us living in peace.