#pol

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#anyone #away #cameron #challenge #david

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#go #lawmakers #must #once #organize

Polite conversation is rarely either. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#conversation #either #polite #rarely

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend. ↗

— David Trimble

#beam #bend #close #close attention #driving

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. ↗

— Alice Walker

#confused #government #movements #much #now

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