#politic

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#diseases #fear #ideologies #interest #material

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democracy #disastrous #foolish #gloom #good

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest. ↗

— Arlen Specter

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There's a great public disinclination toward politicians. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#politicians #public #toward

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#absurd #amendment #any #constitutionally #contests

You know, a statesman is a dead politician. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#know #politician #statesman #you

I don't like politicians who vacillate. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#like #politicians #who

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#been #consistent #could #decisive #differently

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#memory #nothing #politics #short #short memory

In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#arena #driver #governor #i #immigrants