#political

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons. ↗

— Tony Snow

#campaigns #decent #decent people #like #make

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#broad #congress #consensus #could #count

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher. ↗

— David Soul

#become #father #follow #footsteps #hero

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#chain #global #movement #off #open

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#ballot #community #elections #first #give

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#appreciation #bands #because #decline #did

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#been #day #defender #develop #earliest

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country? ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#country #grand #impact #life #political

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#debated #discussed #grew #i #intensely

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything. ↗

— David Talbot

#assassinations #because #change #end #establishment