#politic

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#due #especially #exception #film #film making

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#i #know #more #need #now

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#decisions #everybody #having #life #makes

Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news—the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and reflection are suddenly subordinate to this cheeseburger in my life! I offer this as self-criticism; but what it means to be "political" is that you welcome these obsessions with cheeseburgers—at great cost to the rest of your life. ↗

— John Irving

#junk-food #newspapers #politics #food

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#be happy #call #everybody #good #happy

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#noble #politics #profession #sense #serious

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver. ↗

— Elizabeth Emken

#democrat #establishment #i #political #problem

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#bit #call #democracy #election #height

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#away #ban #dominant #fascinating #from time to time

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#close #countries #heightened #i #i think