#politic

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#definite #ever #everyone #generalities #go

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#bet #happens #nothing #planned #politics

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#conservative #forward #good #how #however

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#economic #else #go #individualists #nation

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#bitter #cynical #i #i am #i do

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#most #often #people #politician #says

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#capacities #compel #find #give #her

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#absolutely not #cannot #catch #collect #commander-in-chief

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#came #german #i #know #number

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over. ↗

— Dan Savage

#culture #first #gay #gay rights #going