#politic

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#business #earnest #game

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#gas #like #may #much #poison

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#detective stories #fiction #politicians #read #science

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#best way #cards #enough #face #lay

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. ↗

— Maurice Barres

#does #his #keeps #opposite #politician

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#afraid #future #men #narrow #republicans

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#american politics #dirty #part #politics #something

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#both #character #civil #concerning #considerably

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#agencies #appeal #broadening #civil #compensation

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#clergymen #gone #hold #holding #hosts