#politic

As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#money

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#cut #down #kind #mount #nixon

Markets weed out inefficient practices, but only when no one has sufficient power to manipulate them. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#change

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises". ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#politics #music

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#government-corruption #politics #senate #present

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#politics #turkey #television

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions. ↗

— Iain Pears

#politics #virtue #dreams

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#political

Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for -- annually, not oftener -- if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ↗

— Mark Twain

#thanksgiving #england

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism." (Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini) ↗

— Winston Churchill

#fascism #history #italy #lenin #politics