#politic

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#body #born #carries #causes #destruction

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#freest #nothing #politics #thing #world

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush. ↗

— Karl Rove

#borderline #bush #civility #hope #mr

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally. ↗

— Karl Rove

#anything #cindy #clown #face #his

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically. ↗

— Karl Rove

#bad #been #dawning #democrats #else

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. ↗

— Karl Rove

#american politics #candidate #depict #diminish #foil

My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother. ↗

— Karl Rove

#been #collateral #commentators #damage #father

Negative politics have always been around. ↗

— Karl Rove

#around #been #negative #politics

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#another #banks #call #communal #community

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#begin #communal #compared #congress #covert