#politics

But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#politics #love

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#politics #revenge #men

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. ↗

— Plato

#men

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country? ↗

— George Washington

#politics #men

The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms. ↗

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

#real-men #romania #romanian #men

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them. ↗

— Juan Cole

#money #politicians #politics #super-pacs #united-states

If politics left out the manipulation of money, I would perhaps view it more than a partisan traffic jam that never ends. ↗

— Zephyr McIntyre

#money

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army. ↗

— Ezra Klein

#insurance #military #money #politics #money

I've always found the thousand dollar dinners more unsettling than the twenty-five-thousand dollar ones --- if someone pays the Republican National Committee twenty-five thousand dollars (or, more likely, fifty per couple) to breathe the same air as Charlie for an hour or two, then it's clear the person has money to spare. What breaks my heart is when it's apparent through their accent or attire that a person isn't well off but has scrimped to attend an event with us. We're not worth it! I want to say. You should have paid off your credit-card bill, invested in your grandchild's college fund, taken a vacation to the Ozarks. Instead, in a few weeks, they receive in the mail a photo with one or both of us, signed by an autopen, which they can frame so that we might grin out into their living room for years to come. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#elections #politician-s-wife #politics #money

Ideology follows the money." "Governments don't protect people, people protect governments." "To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war. ↗

— Lawrence Samuels

#complexity-science #economics #human-action #politics #money