#politic

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#control #corporate #dominate #executives #ideas

I don't do politics. I just like to laugh. ↗

— Billy Bush

#just #laugh #like #politics

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics. ↗

— Columba Bush

#around #dinner #dinner table #discuss #home

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#always #because #children #decide #go

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#appears #base #challenges #constituency #core

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#comfortable #decisions #felt #i #know

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. ↗

— Vince Cable

#answers #humility #means #partnership #party

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#allowed #civilized #civilized world #decision #needs

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser. ↗

— John Breaux

#always #bowl #could #hope #i

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#democracy #extraordinary #few #here #i