#pol

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well. ↗

— Edmund S. Muskie

#anger #become #campaigns #exaggeration #heat

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#believes #considerations #considers #development #fascism

I am interested in politics. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#i #i am #interested #politics

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#turn #will #you

After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#american #american politics #analyst #business #commentator

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#continues #failure #gap #gender #go

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#her #lot #national #national politics #other

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#bomb #capacity #care #certain #cliff

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me. ↗

— Mike Myers

#arrest #believe #come #i #me

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't. ↗

— Mike Myers

#ask #correctness #each #europe #laugh