So my message to Congress is: Now is not the time to play politics.
Western economies all have a McGuffin that you have to believe in to play politics today.
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In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Obama warned Republicans not to play politics with Sotomayor's nomination.
We cannot play politics at a time when the American people are looking for us to solve problems.
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Mr Eves's opponents pledged primly they would not play politics over the blackout.
It seems at the end of a long year, around the holiday season, a pretty awful thing to play politics about.
Maybe opportunistic senators and journalists will not play politics and one day abandon the very policies that they once urged their president to adopt.
Indeed, both candidates and their campaigns appear all too content to play politics with the issue of immigration rather than engage in any sort of serious debate.
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And I think the American people want us not to play politics with this important issue but instead to get something done, and that's the case that the President will push this week.
Councillor Matthew Riddle, deputy leader of the Conservative group in South Gloucestershire said it was "extraordinarily petty and disrespectful" that councillors with the other two parties would play politics and prevent the Union flag being flown at half-mast.
As long as the Obama administration continues to play politics with entitlements, as opposed to putting forward unpopular but easy to implement solutions, the system will go broke sooner rather than later and there will be lots of other unpleasant side effects.
Senator LINDSEY GRAHAM (Republican, South Carolina): I believe that the votes to withdraw politically in Iraq have diminished, and that the testimony involving people like myself and those on the fence are going to be less likely to play politics with troop withdrawals.
It was simply because the Republicans decided to play politics with a completely unrelated issue, in terms of the extension of the payroll tax cut, to try to I guess curry favor with some political constituency or the other when there was no way to, in accordance with tradition and regulation, to adequately and properly review a pipeline that would cross an international border.
Burris, former attorney general for Illinois, is not accused of engaging in "pay-to-play" politics with Blagojevich.
"I reject and denounce 'pay to play' politics and have no involvement whatsoever in any wrongdoing, " he said.
Again, I think on matters of foreign policy, we shouldn't play partisan politics.
The incident served as a harbinger for the charged role that women's health would play in politics in 2012.
You need to have a U.S. senator like Jim Talent who won't play shameless politics with the judges I put forward.
But now McCain's goal is to inoculate himself, I think, against charges that he would play racial politics anywhere down the line.
This time, Congress has decided to play some politics with it.
But I also think, given some of the other moves that have been made here, that the Republicans are trying to play democratic politics to their advantage.
If Democrats are really scandalized that tax-exempt organizations are exploiting a "loophole" to play in politics, they could begin reform by calling for their union allies to stick to their own primary tax-exempt purpose.
We are not going to play Westminster party politics with the Northern Ireland peace process.
It appears that economists have a useful role to play in British politics.
How his voice will play in national politics is an interesting question.
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And if we can sustain that spirit, then regardless of how the politics play out in 2012, the American people will be better for it.
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