#politics

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#fyodor-dostoevsky #hipsters #ignorance #politics #wisdom

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#politics #retail #state #where

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#deadly #decisions #does #except #few

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year. ↗

— Mara Liasson

#advantage #anniversary #both #campaign #campaigns

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#bedfellows #does #make #politics #strange

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion. ↗

— James McGreevey

#being #best #closet #election #first

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