#politic

I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done. ↗

— Alan Cranston

#definition #does #done #effective #feel

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#function #get #life #parliament #politician

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#believe #i #i believe #i believe in #independence

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#capable #honour #meanness #party #political

Finality is not the language of politics. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#language #politics

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#economic #economic independence #education #even #independence

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#big #biography #career #getting #had

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#just #just one #many #national #national unity

Insider trading is a serious crime. Do you know what the penalty for doing it is? Nothing, if you’re a member of Congress.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #crime #criminal #crooked #filthy

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#country #disgrace #done #duty #elected