#politic

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#everybody #everything #get #nowadays #only

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#defend #defendants #job #job security #lawyers

But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#afghanistan #been #case #countries #course

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth. ↗

— Charles Edison

#before #commonwealth #even #how #issues

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#caution #certain #certain degree #consultants #degree

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#activist #animal #animal rights #care #compassion

I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#belong #eat #encourage #every #every time

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#purity #well

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for. ↗

— Cintra Wilson

#politics #satire #economy

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#finished #going #governor #i #life