#pol

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#democrat #democrat party #future #liberal #party

Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don't have to fear war. ↗

— Catherine Ashton

#about #benefits #best #bring #chance

In foreign policy, there are times when speaking with one voice - and it doesn't have to be mine - allows us to engage better on issues, and enables us to do things more effectively. ↗

— Catherine Ashton

#better #effectively #enables #engage #foreign

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks. ↗

— Julian Assange

#against #attacks #databases #defend #format

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#characters #cutting #feet #fit #i

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#businesses #executives #highly #many #paid

We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward. ↗

— David Axelrod

#catastrophe #class #ditch #drove #economy

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals. ↗

— John Avlon

#both #both sides #compete #declare #first

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us. ↗

— John Avlon

#always #conspiracy #divide #far-left #left wing

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#assumptions #choice #dictated #driven #economy