#politics

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country. ↗

— Joan Blades

#i #optimism #politics #real #real sense

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#better #decisions #difficult #difficult decisions #doing

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#best #call #cheap #days #fad

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight. ↗

— Tony Blair

#any #conducted #easy #least #life

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#after #bars #chat #death #else

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#again #disgusting #doing #father #favors

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#global #global warming #hysteria #i #i see

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#belong #belongs #either #hate #i

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#entertainment #industry #politics

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. ↗

— Hans Eysenck

#diplomacy #even #facts #fine #international