#pol

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. ↗

— Cornel West

#brown #catastrophe #complex #discourse #ghettos

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people. ↗

— Cornel West

#chance #focuses #going #got #here

Big money is ruining the political system. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#money #political #political system #ruining #system

I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#administration #always #bankrupt #been #between

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#aggressively #because #better #challenges #day

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#austerity #better #doing #fiscal #markets

Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in. ↗

— Timothy West

#being #brought #chamberlain #court #end

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#choose #comes #connoisseur #heart #like

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#america #believe #big #big business #business

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is. ↗

— Anthony A. Williams

#best #definitely #elected #i #i may not