#pol

Polite conversation is rarely either. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#conversation #either #polite #rarely

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend. ↗

— David Trimble

#beam #bend #close #close attention #driving

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. ↗

— Alice Walker

#confused #government #movements #much #now

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. ↗

— Robert Trout

#company #east #established #india #monopoly

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#government #may #needs #political #president

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dead #government #man #politician #statesman

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. ↗

— Donald Trump

#go #good #good people #government #into

China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does. ↗

— Donald Trump

#china #day #does #dollars #economically

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#big #bites #broadcasters #contempt #down

The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#citizens #contributed #digital #enabled #itself