#politic

Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.' ↗

— Tony Campolo

#claim #committed #evangelicals #family #family values

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#effect #hardly #individual #judge #merely

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be. ↗

— Robert Caro

#ballot #ballot box #better #box #choices

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world. ↗

— Robert Caro

#country #creating #first #had #hill

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own. ↗

— John le Carre

#before #come #conspiracy #into #learned

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#belong #benefit #companies #cuban #exclusively

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american #any #automatically #definition #disqualified

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#current #i #interested #policy #politics

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#never #political #problem #solve #will

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end. ↗

— Chris Christie

#always #beginning #campaigns #different #end