#pol

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling. ↗

— Al Lewis

#deserve #gets #keep #politicians #struggling

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. ↗

— Hyman Rickover

#against #bureaucracy #forgive #god #going

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

#invented #killing #nobody #polite #word

It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards. ↗

— Alice Rivlin

#big #campaign #certainly #connotations #contributors

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting. ↗

— Jay Roach

#becomes #both #collecting #combination #decisions

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist. ↗

— Todd Rokita

#economist #forward #i #i am #knee

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#been #decades #even #i #less

One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#because #caught #crowds #debate #events

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#ball #got #i #me #off

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life. ↗

— Ray Romano

#appealing #comics #conversing #drawing #guess