#politics

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ↗

— Robert Orben

#elections #ever #feeling #find #get

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. ↗

— George Orwell

#folly #hatred #issues #itself #keeping

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

— Wendell Phillips

#difference #more #politics #quarrels #religion

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#arts #british #especially #force #gets

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

#become #business #i #i think #shame

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

#creating #focus #focus groups #greater #groups

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? ↗

— Mark Poster

#begins #late #more #more and more #politics

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. ↗

— Colin Powell

#last #our #our people #people #politics

For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#change #dare #different #fast #global