#pol

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics. ↗

— William Odom

#i #politics #presidents #served #under

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#ambiguity #between #country #hundred #japan

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising agencies #agencies #business #cannot #deaf

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#dishonest #kind #left #only #ought

The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#committee #credibility #department #get #good

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. ↗

— Ben Okri

#away #both #common #doing #draw

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things. ↗

— Ben Okri

#acknowledged #cannot #coded #dislike #frontiers

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#dead #imagination #knowledge #polite #word

Political correctness has become a straightjacket. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#correctness #political #political correctness

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#boring #boring thing #i #interested #involved