#pol

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me! ↗

— Richard Pryor

#america #car #cause #coming #feel

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too? ↗

— Richard Pryor

#another #dead #earth #even #go

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#careful #certain #essential #hands #his

We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities. ↗

— Georgi Purvanov

#area #attain #aware #bulgaria #contingent

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#account #compromise #diplomatic #interests #into

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#disappeared #emerged #everyone #existence #foundation

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#activities #eye #financing #keep #political

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#gun #knowing #politics #pull #trigger

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#considers #dictatorship #during #even #experiments

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#carolina #north #north carolina #politics #rail