#pol

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are. ↗

#feeding #how #myth #politics #presidential

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#basically #bottom #british #coming #doing

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#convince #fight #had #hell #i

For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#been #bring #change #could #declines

Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death. ↗

— de Selby

#death #flann-o-brien #hallucinations #reality #the-third-policeman

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.* ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#feminism #politics #religion

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#blogs #getting #i #lot #music

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges. ↗

— John Dingell

#grudges #i #polish

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#capable #honour #meanness #party #political

Finality is not the language of politics. ↗