#pol

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. ↗

— James Bovard

#being #burden #change #con #important

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. ↗

— Chester Bowles

#government #important #left #politicians #too

I am not a politician. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#i #i am #politician

It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today. ↗

— John Bracken

#our #policies #provide #situations #suited

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