The most important thing about a candidate is not their promises – those hardly ever get delivered anyway. It’s about how they would respond to unpredictable future events. And that’s about their character.
A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.
There’s something in the Latino community called ‘la promesa de Obama’ – Obama’s promise. He made very specific promises to the Latino community. He committed to enacting comprehensive immigration reform within his first year.
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
Trump’s vitriol attracts large crowds and may even win him the Republican presidential nomination but dishonors our best traditions. It spits in the face of every protection and opportunity our Constitution promises.
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
The politician’s promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.
That Rubio is an open-borders, Chamber-of-Commerce Republican is undeniable from his record, and when conservatives compare any candidate’s campaign promises to his voting record, they believe the record, not the promises.
One of the promises I made when I ran was, I’ll never vote with my reelection in mind.
Bitcoin is inherently international, and one of its great promises is it enables cross-border payments in a more efficient way.
Our state, so full of promise, has become the land of broken promises. And the promise-breaker-in-chief is Gov. Gavin Newsom.
When I was coming to this country, I heard about its promises.
I think what they’re looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.
I’m reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried ‘gatekeepers’ and ‘traditional media,’ and that one of the promises of ‘new media’ was that it would break the chokehold that old media companies had on public opinion.
Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.
You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen? The Administrative Procedure Act is designed to thwart this sort of maneuver.
America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
I don’t think that we need to raise tuition on our students. I don’t think that our students should be made to pay for the mistakes of our past politicians and the promises they made.
Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn’t contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.
When you’re not the Steph Currys or the Kyrie Irvings of the league, long-term promises are irrelevant.
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.
I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.
Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
In my 41 years of experience in our film industry I’ve noticed that people make a lot of promises in the evening which they promptly forget in the morning.
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.
Salman never forgets his promises and gave me a second chance in ‘Mental’. He is the giving type.
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
The new Peter Molyneux has been born that never ever promises things but always ever shows it.
I wouldn’t even go into the history of the last days of the Soviet Union, the withdrawal from Europe, and what promises were given at that time, because those were oral promises, and our leaders of that time strongly believe that, like in ancient Russia, a word given is better than any treaty.
I’m running because Hoosiers deserve a senator who makes promises here in Indiana and then keeps them in Washington.
I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.
I’ve had my fill of media sensationalism and false promises.
What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn’t something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.
As we enter 2015, we are faced with overwhelming challenges. However, the dawn of 2015 also promises unlimited potential and the opportunity to begin rebuilding America.
Israel’s decision on whether to strike or not is dictated not from the atmosphere and not from American or European promises but is based on the Iranian project. And I don’t think the Iranians would agree to anything that would satisfy Israel.
Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
Rahul Gandhi has promised to remove poverty and unemployment. There is nothing new about the election promises of Congress. Had only half of those promises been fulfilled, India would have been the most prosperous country in the world today.
I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you’re saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word.
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
I try to keep my promises.
And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God’s good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ’s blood.
You’re constantly asking yourself, ‘Am I doing enough? Am I living up to this moment? Am I asking the toughest questions of the president to make sure we’re continuing to do our job to hold him accountable for his words and his promises?’
