Political Courage Quotes

• El éxito no es definitivo, el fracaso no es fatal: lo que cuenta es el valor para continuar.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiración, Motivación, Positivo

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• El valor no es la ausencia de miedo...

  Richard Stengel

  Coraje, miedo, cáncer

  "Mandela: Sus 8 lecciones de liderazgo", por Richard Stengel, content.time.com. 9 th Of July de 2008.

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• Hacía tiempo que había descubierto la primera lección del valor político: pensar de nuevo. Luego había aprendido la segunda: estar preparado para dirigir y decidir. Ahora estaba estudiando la tercera: cómo asumir el riesgo calculado. Iba a alienar a algunas personas, me gustara o no. En el momento en que decides, divides.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Long Ago, People

  Tony Blair (2010). “A Journey”, p.28, Random House

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• The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Hero, Long

  "Molly Ivins: Not. backing. Hillary." by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2006.

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• Political courage is not political suicide.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Suicide, Courage, Political

  Arnold Schwarzenegger's environmental speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, New York, www.cfr.org. April 12, 2007.

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• Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

  Ron Fournier

  Self, Class, Roots

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• Tengo tres políticos favoritos: Reagan, Truman y Bobby Kennedy - Bobby por demostrar un notable coraje político a pesar de ser detestado por muchos en ambos bandos.

  Joe Scarborough

  Política, Tres, Bandos

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• Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

  Jeff Goodell

  Oil, Political, President

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• What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.

  Salman Rushdie

  Arte, Real, Pensamiento

  Source: lareviewofbooks.org

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• Political courage requires clarity. The Obama Administration chose the tortured route of arguing the legality of the individual mandate via the interstate commerce clause for one simple reason: it did not want to take the political risk of allowing opponents to call it a tax increase. That was stupid. The Republicans were calling it a tax increase anyway.

  Joe Klein

  Political, Clarity

  "How To Improve ObamaCare" by Joe Klein, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 29, 2012.

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