#politics

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#constitutional #control #giving #government #heritage

Without alienation, there can be no politics. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#politics #without

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics. ↗

— Theresa May

#commons #i #involved #lady #liked

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this! ↗

— Theresa May

#issue #lot #men #politics #realised

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#like #me #people #politics

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#i #me #politics #you

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#country #decided #dozen #even #i

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#i #i think #interesting #mean #more

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This is necessary right now, or else men will not be able to attain even that which is possible today. ↗

— Max Weber

#experience