#politic

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#became #because #color #communist #ever

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#friend #gross #order #political #present

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. ↗

— David Mamet

#back #beliefs #could #describe #exercise

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American. ↗

— David Mamet

#because #entitled #get #i #opinions

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. ↗

— David Mamet

#ask #gag #guy #i #politics

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #america #asia #ask #britain

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#being #blair #british #day-to-day #i

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#anatomy #because #direct #dirty #experience

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#advantage #away #certain #china #concepts