#politics

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#best #chief #close #editor #getting

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ↗

— George Orwell

#design

The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#politics #humor

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime. ↗

— Howard Crosby

#because #become #cesspool #crime #double

People feel politics isn't about their lives. ↗

— David Miliband

#feel #lives #people #politics #their

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#had #hard #i #involved #kurt

In politics you learn to always smile. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#learn #politics #smile #you

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#freedom #guaranteed #only #own #press

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#change #first #necessary #resistance #say

The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics. ↗

— John Sununu

#deduction #great #incentive #interests #loophole