#pol

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. ↗

— Robert Trout

#company #east #established #india #monopoly

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#government #may #needs #political #president

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dead #government #man #politician #statesman

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. ↗

— Donald Trump

#go #good #good people #government #into

China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does. ↗

— Donald Trump

#china #day #does #dollars #economically

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#big #bites #broadcasters #contempt #down

The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#citizens #contributed #digital #enabled #itself

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ↗

— Stewart Udall

#confused #fear #greatness #i #power

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#polish #purpose #slack #spirit #tighten

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#foreign #foreign policy #held #india #instrument