#pol

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#loses #much #polish #things #too

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#allows #behind #cape #closed #committee

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#about #anthropology #astronomy #fun #geology

I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#air #air pollution #bush #clean #content

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#forget #lincoln #most #politician #professional

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it. ↗

— Scott Caan

#earrings #get #guys #hollywood #i

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is. ↗

— Vince Cable

#challenge #class #explain #government #how

And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#acquisition #also #business #department #fighter

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. ↗

— Simon Cameron

#honest #politician #stay #who #will

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#economic #economic power #emerged #increasingly #into