#politic

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#bent #country #i #leader #live

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bloggers #briefings #correspondents #day #days

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#already #chamber #craft #different #different thing

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#commonwealth #comparison #destined #distinguished #foundation

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#brought #development #elements #inheritance #most

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ↗

— Gary Hart

#call #higher #i #i think #office

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#covering #decisions #everything #eyes #fbi

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#am #congress #content #i #i am

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...' ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#desire #disappear #factor #good #good people