#pol

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#lies #polite #telling #telling lies #telling the truth

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes. ↗

— Hollis Stacy

#american #attitude #daughters #doctors #feel

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are higher than Warren Buffet's. If we're all equally a bunch of suckers, how could any of us be worth hating? ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#culture #politics #equality

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#labour #more #moving #new #new labour

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced. ↗

— Lesley Stahl

#anybody #balanced #bias #cbs #cbs news

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#bald #candidates #disagreeable #fat #how

Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#been #border #fifty #five #had

Judges are appointed often through the political process. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#judges #often #political #political process #process

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#least #over #point #political #politics

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

#being #big #big companies #companies #garbage