#politic

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion. ↗

— John Hume

#class #controlled #difficult #discriminatory #districts

There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity. ↗

— John Hume

#called #change #discriminating #had #hands

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#administration #anyone #choice #expects #government

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#established #forgets #life #nature #never

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#dakota #during #dust #i #learnt

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#blame #else #err #human #politics

We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period. ↗

— David Hunt

#left #period #politically #politically correct #right

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#going #intended #intending #neither #nor

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#abolish #absolute #been #condition #death

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers. ↗

— John Hewson

#both #careers #either #establish #had