#pol

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#campaign #campaign finance #election #existing #finance

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#broad #congress #consensus #could #count

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#between #fixed #growing #growing up #i

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#conspiracy #organized #politics #productive #unorganized

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people. ↗

— Barney Frank

#other #ought #people #politicians #same

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. ↗

— Socrates

#i #live #man #politician #really

I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems. ↗

— Hans Frank

#adolf #associates #belonged #circle #closest

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#anything #cannot #discussion #enforcement #evil

I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#fighting #further #had #i #labor

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. ↗

— Al Franken

#back #doing #focused #getting #home