#pol

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#bobby #bobby kennedy #both #both sides #courage

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#caught #change #flying #gets #his

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#barack obama #equation #knew #obama #politically

With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#armament #created #credit #germany #however

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#body #clear-cut #emergence #expression #gives

And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#connected #considerably #consumers #establishes #exercises

The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#agents #armed #demonstrators #for the people #government

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#agencies #auto #beaten #being #dead

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#cheapest #clean #develop #fuels #local

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#demise #did #distance #else #him