#pol

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#am #better #i #i am #many

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game. ↗

— Eric Liu

#elections #fellow #game #i #i wonder

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#because #believe #changed #contribution #evidence

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#congress #filibuster #invented #know #men

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed. ↗

— John Major

#dubious #euro #exchange #extremely #followed

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#again #been #caucus #changes #country

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#avoid #china #confrontation #country #current

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department. ↗

— Joseph R. McCarthy

#communist #communist party #department #five #hand

I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#australian #before #deal #federation #formation

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game. ↗

— Joe McGinniss

#been #con #game #politics #sense