Sentences with phrase «old politicians going»

We don't need the same old politicians going back to Albany playing the insider game that's happened for decades and decades.

Not exact matches

I was reminded as we spoke of a great old piece of Chicago advice for patronage jobseekers, attributed to various politicians, that goes: «We don't want nobody that nobody sent.»

With all the immediate crisies going on, the next time a leftist reporter asks a conservative politician a stupid question like how old is the earth, the politician just needs to answer, «older than you, dimwit, next question».

I'm not equating Speaker Silver to President Nixon, but I am pointing out that it's an age old political dodge to say a Politician, in spite of his lack of a moral compass, is just too valuable to let go, and after all he enjoys broad based political support.

The rally — eagerly promoted by Mr. Grimm's team with a little more than a week to go before Election Day — filled the small church with several dozen die - hards, who nibbled on soft - baked chocolate chip cookies and frosted mini-doughnuts as politician after politician did their best to impersonate the fire - and - brimstone preachers of old.

Politicians need to explain what exactly is going to be different about politics, parties and voting that is going to persuade 16 and 17 year olds to engage and participate when their 18 and 19 year old brothers and sisters don't.

««My board could be supportive of after - school programs and at least get a committee going — go into schools and organize activities like escort service for old people, cleaning up the parks and all sorts of things,» said the fledgling politician.

Asked why the county organization is going with Diaz, Garcia said, «It's the same old musical chairs» in the Bronx, where favored elected politicians move between Albany and City Hall, often being selected in a party process for a special election rather than through a primary.

He said when Buhari came into power through a military coup in December 1983, he went about arresting politicians arbitrarily and he was one of those picked up because he was the Chairman of the defunct National Party of Nigeria in old Bendel State.

Fritz Zwicky, she says, was «very decent, kind,» a doting father who took her to tea when her mother and two older sisters went shopping, and who used the «spherical» epithet only twice, and even then only regarding Swiss politicians.

And special mention must go to Colm Meaney as a lecherous politician whose drunken malapropisms provide the biggest laugh, and Stephen Rea, who pops up briefly as a name - dropping cabbie unashamed to wheel out the old «I had that James Joyce in the back of my cab once» routine.

The idea of society providing a quality, comprehensive education for all children is inspiring and attainable, but the old model for delivering that education — a monolithic government entity led by politicians with a captive audience of students forced into grossly unequal schools — has got to go, one of the nation's pioneers in public school reform told a Tulane audience on Thursday.

Few Swedish politicians harbor any ideas of going back to the old system that gave parents and kids little choice.

Oh no, I forgot that money goes to old senators and pensions for all the politicians and government departments doing nothing to protect any interests, of any kind, for Canadians or our environment.

There is an old saying among bureaucratic institutions that goes something like «Politicians come and go, but we are here forever.»