#politics

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#america #cause #cleaner #cry #cutting

Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#am #attorney #attorney general #conventions #court

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. ↗

— Zell Miller

#america #believed #democrats #duty #fight

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics. ↗

— Kate Millett

#gone #i #international #into #lib

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. ↗

— Kate Millett

#beyond #bring #call #change #essence

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#cynical #dirty #i #politics #reject

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#good #hopes #humble #modest #otherwise

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#diversion #eyes #important #men #more

I played by the rules of politics as I found them. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#i #played #politics #rules #them

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#gets #oblivion #olympics #politics #second