#politic

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#already #because #comedy #feelings #get

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year. ↗

— Mara Liasson

#advantage #anniversary #both #campaign #campaigns

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing. ↗

— Lauren Bush

#great #great things #i #i think #like

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#badly #been #by the time #consumer #corn

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#case #global #guarantor #important #important role

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#mother #politics #specter #totally #uninterested

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#allowed #being #candidate #democracy #dislike

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#been #four #freedoms #hungry #hungry man

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#long #pennsylvania #people #politics #state

In other words, our constitution was designed by people who were idealistic but not ideological. There's a big difference. You can have a philosophy that tends to be liberal or conservative but still be open to evidence, experience, and argument. That enables people with honest differences to find practical, principled compromise. On the other hand, fervent insistence on an ideology makes evidence, experience, and arguments irrelevant: If you possess the absolute truth, those who disagree are by definition wrong, and evidence of success or failure is irrelevant. There is nothing to learn from the experience of other countries. Respectful arguments are a waste of time. Compromise is weakness. And if your policies fail, you don't abandon them; instead, you double down, asserting that they would have worked if only they had been carried to their logical extreme. ↗

— Bill Clinton

#design