To me, that felt politically impotent, because the forces that are driving American foreign policy are so much larger than any one man.

The reason: it is in the interest of no one except the wretched and politically impotent farmers who must watch their children die.

But there is almost something sad about it - we are talking about people who have become politically impotent.

This is not, of course, true of all Israelis: there has always been a powerful, if today politically impotent, tradition of dissent.

This woman, in her twenties, was not from Iran's Westernized and politically impotent upper class.

The Communist Party in between Gorbachev's resignation and its suspension was politically impotent.

Thus the best hope for the status quo is to keep the Indian ignorant, sick, poverty-stricken, and politically impotent.

Lonely, isolated, and politically impotent, there should be few people who would choose to live in such a place.

"These are people that are politically impotent and are not seen as part of the mainstream."

It is no accident that this Parliament is politically impotent today, despite the celebrations for the new Treaty.