#politics

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#borders #challenges #creates #globalisation #instruments

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#been #doing #everyday #everyday life #find

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. ↗

— Eric Liu

#am #bad #balancing #big #campaigns

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. ↗

— Eric Liu

#citizenship #conversation #descending #everyday #feel

Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing. ↗

— David Lloyd

#actually #alan #always #anarchy #anything

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#find #i #important #less #like

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#embittered #lands #other #other lands #our

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#done #grew #i #law #law school

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