#politic

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#allow #america #arrogant #dictate #election

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#amount #certain #control #customary #even

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#class #connection #deep #educated #ideas

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#clan #doctrine #honesty #honesty is #incompatible

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#anyway #flattering #get #glorified #his

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#convince #old #plain #political #time

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#american #american public #been #believe #best

Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share? ↗

— Richard Trumka

#angry #ask #corporations #fair #fair share

We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for! ↗

— Richard Trumka

#building #case #develop #dime #electoral

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#active #causes #help #i #immediate