#pol

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder. ↗

— Tim Ryan

#attention deficit #deficit #disorder #foreign #foreign policy

Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically? ↗

— Chris Matthews

#how #much #politically #recognize #spiritually

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#city #covered #extent #fortieth #hundred

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#economic #great #like #numbers #politics

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them. ↗

— John McCain

#collective consciousness #consciousness #core #dare #deeply

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#coach #dumb #dumb enough #enough #football

The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#napoleon #age

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would. ↗

— Kent McCord

#any #discover #guy #hell #him

What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #polybotes #son-of-neptune #humor

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word... ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#greek-mythology #mythology