#politic

I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me. ↗

— Stephanie Cutter

#been #even #find #fortunate #gets

That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#country #exist #going #news #political

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#economic #former #insist #our #political

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#board #control #editorial #gun #gun control

The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who perceive the need of cooperation are powerless. Until education has been directed for a generation into new channels, and the Press has abandoned incitements to hatred, only harmful policies have any chance of being adopted in practice by our present political methods. But there is no obvious means of altering education and the Press until our political system is altered. From this dilemma there is no issue by means of ordinary action, at any rate for a long time to come. The best that can be hoped, it seems to me, is that we should, as many of us as possible, become political skeptics, rigidly abstaining from belief in the various attractive party programmes that are put before us from time to time. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#politics #rationality #education

President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes. ↗

— Charlie Crist

#america #best #built #decisions #doing

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me. ↗

— Charlie Crist

#century #certainly #democratic #democratic party #enter

Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#added #always #american #associated #been

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#american #benefits #citizens #civilization #economic

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#both #bulwark #certain #constitution #expression