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Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

Portfolios are everything, promises are nothing. Do the work.

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

President-elect Trump has made very clear he wants to make good on the promises that we as a nation have made to the seniors who rely upon Medicare and certainly the lower-income Americans who rely upon Medicaid and other entitlements like Social Security, frankly, for those who receive that.

President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.

President Trump - God forbid - the country will be okay, I promise. I don't know exactly what the country will look like, but we will survive it.

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and read to me like Noah read to Allie.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

"Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing.

Promise me you will appreciate every moment because we are the lucky ones

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

Promise you'll think of me every second?

Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible.

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.

Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon

...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.

Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.

Promise too much and you'll have plenty of room to fail. Promise little and you'll have plenty of room to excel.

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.

Purifying and sealing by the Holy Spirit of Promise constitute the culminating steps in the process of being born again.

Put up your guards, keep faith in God, I promise you all the world will be ours.

Quality is more than a promise, it's genuine performance.

Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

Real faith rejoices in the promise of God as if it saw the deliverance and was enjoying it.

Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.

Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.

Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.

Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment.