#politics

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ↗

— Ross Perot

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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ↗

— Albert Pike

#ennobles #great #great principle #nation #principle

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#good #here #losing #politics #rule

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#fight #move #over #politics #same

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#feeling #gets #gift #give #good

Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer You're the Doctor of my dreams With your crinkly hair and your glassy stare And your Machiavellian schemes I know they say that you are very vain And short and fat and pushy But at least you're not insane Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer And wishing you were here Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer You're so chubby and so neat With your funny clothes and your squishy nose You're like a German parakeet All right so people say that you don't care But you've got nicer legs than Hitler And bigger tits than Cher Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer And wishing you were here ↗

— Graham Chapman

#politics #dreams