#politic

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#i #never #political #political agenda #those

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#become #children #concerned #i #incorrect

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#diseases #fear #ideologies #interest #material

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democracy #disastrous #foolish #gloom #good

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#political #public #public interest #rarity #risk

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#politicians #public #toward

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#absurd #amendment #any #constitutionally #contests

You know, a statesman is a dead politician. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#know #politician #statesman #you

You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#alienate #always #bake #besides #candidate

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#contagion #countries #currency #european #eurozone