Sentences with phrase «elected politicians like»

Asked if in those circumstances he would sit in the Westminster Parliament, the Moray MP said: «The consequences of independence are that we don't need to send elected politicians like myself....

Many elected politicians like a long - leash approach, too.

Not exact matches

«History shows that we Americans generally like to elect politicians who have a stable family life, or at the least the appearance of one: a spouse, perhaps a couple of children, etc,» writes Freakanomics journalist Stephen J. Dubner.

If I elect a politician to office, I'd like to think that out and out lying is challenging for them at best.

It's about realizing he couldn't litigate his past comedy, about trusting his staff, about understanding why politicians act the way they do in interviews, about recognizing why the norms of the Senate matter.So this is an interview about what it's like to be a politician, why perfectly nice and interesting people end up acting like all those other politicians after getting elected, and the role we as voters (and we in the media) play in it.

The battle to create progressive change goes well beyond any one candidate or campaign, and it demands the development of institutional and independent power to the left of the Democratic Party — power that can prod politicians like Cuomo to govern on behalf of the people who elect them.

«The reason I think it's important that everyone votes is because when you have an unequal voter turnout between demographic groups like we have now — people over 65 are almost twice as likely to vote as 18 - 24 year olds - then politicians look after the people that have elected them or the people that might elect them in the future.

Elected houses have to pander to the public, the public are generally stupid; in return for a vote politicians set aside all petty considerations (like the law, morality, basic human decency and common sense) and pass stupid, kneejerk, dangerous laws (the only people to disagree with Her Majesty's government passing dangerous laws in the name of anti-terrorism were a bunch of out - of - touch 90 - year - old judges, who have been replaced by a tame political supreme court).

Greenberg says the numbers matter, because when a politician is falling in the polls, he loses political capital and other elected officials, like those in the legislature, no longer believe they have to go along with what the governor wants.

We talked to 30 women politicians in New York at all levels of government about what the political climate looks like in 2016, the year the United States might elect its first - ever woman president.

Like many local politicians, Silver earns supplemental income from jobs other than his elected state government post (which earns him $ 121,000 annually).

Milano said he also would like to see term limits for elected officials in Congress, calling politicians «the most powerful executives in our country.»

A mayor's attempt to wrest control of a school system from an elected school board might seem like a brave effort to shake up a recalcitrant education system, or it could be dismissed as a politician's power grab.

It looks to me like the usual rhetoric is a weak defense for the failure of responsibility of climate scientists, the IPCC etc, the elected politicians hold as a collective to of what they knew, when they new it, and what they did about it.

ALEC tries to shortcircuit all that nasty legislative stuff and put elected state officials directly in touch with corporations and other like - minded lobbyists and politicians to meet outside of the legislature and make things happen.

It is like the proverbial foreign invasive species (rabbits in Australia, giant hogweed, etc.)-- it seemed a good idea when it was nice to look at and was helping politicians get elected, but now it has gained a life of its own «in the wild», it is a species with no natural opposition to its rapid unopposed growth.

We all get fired up — and we start to recycle, and we start to bicycle, and we work like crazy to elect politicians who promise to build an economy based on green jobs and to pass comprehensive energy reform.

This is why the work of people like Yvonne Bambrick and the Toronto Cyclists Union is so important; It looks like we have lost what the suburban politicians call the «war on the car» and that no matter who is elected, they are not going to spend 12 cents on paint for bike lanes and bike infrastructure improvements.

The professors also found «that elected judges are more focused on providing service to the voters (that is, they behave like politicians), whereas appointed judges are more focused on their long - term legacy as creators of precedent (that is, they behave like professionals).»