#politic

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#call #courtroom #ideology #judge #judge roberts

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#hot #judges #politics #red

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#american politics #friend #i #money #most

Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#become #believe #both #change #come

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#fundamentalists #i #i think #identify #minority

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ideology #mind #political #political ideology #science

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. ↗

— James Wolcott

#alike #bunny #candidate #consultant #crowd

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience. ↗

— Joe Wright

#action film #action films #art #bad #bourne

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#culture #despair #different #fanaticism #gender