#pol

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#basis #exactly #exist #lying #only

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#after #climbed #consideration #feel #i

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#court #deeply #element #extremist #flawed

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#i #involved #more #politics #quite

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East. ↗

— Richard Armitage

#critical #east #flexibility #foreign #foreign policy

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s? ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#generous #how #less #politics #possible

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#clever #never #option #our #policy

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#called #country #democracy #enough #enough people

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good. ↗

— David Baldacci

#bad #bad people #flip #good #good people

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. ↗

— George Will

#class #even #income #mail #means