#pol

Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world. ↗

— Christo

#cold war #economic #end #europe #germany

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight. ↗

— Roy Cohn

#i #letters #like #polite #write

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#area #attend #child #district #each

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#balls #little #politicians #seriously #should

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education. ↗

— Roy Romer

#deep #education #guy #i #just

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#kind #most #politics #practical

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#economic #else #go #our #political

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. ↗

— Dora Russell

#human #incompetence #laws #mark #marriage

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#down #failed #leadership #need #past