#politic

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#desperation #facing #get #help #only

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#already #become #been #campaign #day

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#back #basis #community #different #economically

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#blindly #body #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#blindly #i #life #many #passed

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#correct #deal #desire #everybody #get

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#20th century #approached #century #convention #drama

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before. ↗

— Luc Besson

#before #berlin #berlin wall #big #big guys

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity. ↗

— John Hall

#feeling #freedom #hope #i #inspire

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#ambition #govern #i #men #office