Sentences with phrase «more politicians like»

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The clip earned more than 8 million views in one week and Twitter endorsements from the likes of Ellen DeGeneres and former Arizona politician Gabrielle Giffords.

The central thesis of CEO - Speak is no more shocking than the discovery that politicians like to give speeches, sports stars talk in clichés and priests tend to sermonize.

But if you're looking for more hints that The Rock is beginning to seriously consider a presidential run, his comments to Fallon about why people were looking to him as a possible candidate certainly sound like those of a politician.

In that sense, being a small businessman is more like being a politician than being a mogul.

When politicians want to cut a program, do not let them get away with their favorite euphemisms, like «reform,» «fix,» «overhaul,»... Read more

Some of the retiring politicians have spent a decade or more in office, so before the writ is dropped I thought it would be fun to take a look at what some of them looked like in their younger years in office.

How ironic that such a peaceful mantra would actually serve to cause even more grief and suffering (let me point at the middle east for example, KKK, slavery in the U.S. (to some extent), Holocaust and other forms of religious persecution, and finally the manipulation of peasants to fill up the coffers of child molesting Popes... which makes modern politicians of this day look like a Saint).

He's crooked just like every other politician who's tried to use the «faith card» to get more votes from far right conservative Christians.

So it's not that atheists are unlimited in what they can do — it's more like the mind is unlimited, and atheists are using more of the mind and not damaging it with make - believe stuff that some lawyers and politicians tried to sell to us.

Politicians are just like us, but more corrupt.

While I'm sure a lot of politician (okay, all of them) should act a bit more Jesus - like, voting for a politician because he says he Christian is strait up ridiculous, main reason being that the politicians don't care.

All the right candidate has to do is get up there — sound more like a preacher than a politician — or intelligent human being for that matter — and he won the evangelicals — hook, line, and sinker — just like GW did.

Fortunately, these ideas never shaped the normative documents of the American civil religion, nor have they characterized its greatest heroes — men like Jefferson, Lincoln, and Martin Luther King — but they have formed an important tradition of interpretation, one carried by nationalistic clergymen more often than by jingoistic politicians.

Wish most politicians were more like him.

He sounds more like a hypocritical politician to me, Always contradicting himself, whilst pulling the wool over the fan's eyes.

Everyday people complain about how politicians and bankers and... get all the money and flash it with their cars and bla bla and do nt care about people, money is not everything, the world is beocming to hateful, full of wars, we need more peace and friendship bla bla, and then when a guy like Conor shows up they apploud him for his childish and fake rants and show offs.

Although nearby suburbs like Orland Park and Calumet City continue to attract new retailers, Miller said, the politicians in Markham are more concerned about the size of their paychecks.

And like gridlocked politicians, it seems each side of the debate relies more on spin than facts to justify its positions.

While we can forgive a man like Churchill, who weathered a world war with brandy glass in hand, and whose response to charges of overindulgance was as defiant as that towards the Third Reich - «I took more out of drink than it ever took out of me» - the modern politician must conform to a new set of expectations.

Both these books should be read by British politicians and civilian policy makers, because they demonstrate that conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan require more than just adequate military force.

Another obvious one is the fact that many of these populists run specifically on the issue of jobs and job loss - and a successful entrepreneur naturally seems like more of an expert on creating jobs than a professional politician, regardless of whether that perception is accurate.

Demagogic policies, How many times we have seen politicians saying things like «the wealthy are guilty of the people poverty», or talking about the 2013 US fiscal Cliff agreement «the wealthy have to pay more taxes to finance the people health services», for me those are populist and demagogic tactics to gain more voters, because they know that the democracy is controlled by the mob.

The research suggested politicians should be looking at the following: continued welfare reform, with a particular emphasis on developing a contributory system; keeping taxes as low as people believe are possible to deliver high quality services; avoiding punishing people for things they can not possibly do without like driving or buying and selling houses; more proportionate sentencing; and restricting so - called health tourism.

They got respectable front bench politicians on board - people like Michael Gove, who are more motivated by arguments on sovereignty than they are by frenzied talk of borders and refugee waves.

«There's no doubt about it: if we want living wage jobs, stronger hospitals and schools, more affordable rents, lower property taxes, a cleaner environment, and a state government that actually gets things done, politicians like Pedro Espada have got to go.»

In one sense, their use constitutes one more form of accountability, as those politicians who like to draw their moral and rhetorical power from religious traditions must do so at the cost of being judged by those very traditions.

The clamour by politicians for more powers that follows every terrorist attack (no matter the facts of the case) is draconian and misguided and does nothing to address the underlying political and social conditions that explain why British citizens leave home to join groups like ISIS.

Albany Law School Prof. Vin Bonventre has also been critical of Bharara, writing on his blog: «The United States Attorney owes it to his office, and to the justice system he is entrusted to serve, to conduct himself less like a crusading politician and more like an ethically restrained prosecutor.»

To some people, asking yourself whether you feel more inclined to trust the tabloid press, the police, or a politician is like asking whether you'd prefer to swim with a crocodile, a shark, or a bunch of hungry piranhas.

We know of Log Cabin Republicans and even more recently more LGBT politicians like House Representative Mike Fleck (R - Pa) that are both gay and republican.

Green supporters share with those of Ukip a certain populist disillusionment with the political mainstream (for example, three - quarters agree with the statement that «politicians don't care what people like me think»), but there is a crucial difference: they are much more likely to have a sense of political efficacy than Ukip's followers.

Donald Trump's choice of Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate may free up Hillary Clinton to put a politician with a more moderate profile — like Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine — on the Democratic ticket.

There is a feeling that we may not see their like again, that we are doomed to a period in which politicians without character or backbone inundate our national debate, ever more robotic and disconnected from their principles with each passing generation.

«His members of parliament have questioned the integrity of people who served this country, fought for this country, who are essays in bravery of this country,» he seethed, looking more like a worked - up Shakespearian actor than a politician.

As politicians face increasing pressure to sound like a so - called normal person, Phillips is more forthcoming on her credentials in this area.

Politicians like people to believe their propaganda, and nothing more.

Yes it is more staggering that a politician like Ken Livingstone was ever seriously in contention at all The system was designed to make it harder for the Conservative Party though the assumption being that Conservatives are the second choice of relatively few people.

And with a record like that, I understand why some say, that politicians in Wales need to deliver, before they start asking for more power.

Since he is an intelligent and purposeful politician (as well as being more sensitive than he likes to let on), what Mitchell would do best is run a Department again.

It is so refreshing to back a candidate who is more an activist than a politician, who believes in something other than their own self - interest, and who, like Bernie, will certainly mobilize thousands of enthusiastic voters to rally behind his candidacy,» NYPAN Co-Chairman George Albro said in a statement.

The first is that politicians must do more to look and sound more like «ordinary» people.

«But career politicians like Senator Oppenheimer always find it easier to throw more tax dollars at their problems — even as they become more and more scarce.

«Throw out politicians who care more about lining their pockets with campaign contributions from gay millionaires than listening to the voices of everyday voters like you and me,» said Brown in an email to supporters.

We need more politicians to get out there and lead as they did in New York — whether that means being a driving force like Gov. Andrew Cuomo or sticking your neck out like four GOP senators here.

Of course, politicians who have proclaimed their innocence and rejected initial calls to resign have later stepped down under changed circumstances like more accusers coming forward.

The new laws would give district attorneys more power when prosecuting politicians in situations like those seen last week.

He ended the legislative session with several unfinished priorities and battered poll numbers, and like any smart politician has been dripping out bits of positive news and reminders of what was accomplished, and has been visiting the more remote corners of the state ever since.

On TV and radio, some now sound more like managers than politicians.

I haven't noticed other parties doing anything like this at their conferences yet, but if this kind of social action became the norm both politicians and the public might have a bit more belief in the public - spirited nature of politics.

People are willing to give a lot more leeway to politicians they like.