#pol

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#activists #again #believe #challenge #doubt

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#closed #controls #exception #free #free societies

I don't miss politics. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#miss #politics

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#allow #between #corrupt #democrats #difference

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#become #i #politician #running #senate

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#american #american politics #center #happen #meet

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#already #because #comedy #feelings #get

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#compulsion #every #obedient #polite #put

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#long #long run #me #more #polite

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year. ↗

— Mara Liasson

#advantage #anniversary #both #campaign #campaigns