#politics

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#close #closest #closest friend #death #died

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#done #level #most #politics #retail

Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow ... Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and financiers ... Countries that aren't sure that borrowing is worth the rist are told how important it is to establis a credit rating: borrow even if you really don't need the money. ↗

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

#politics #money

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#less #live #politics #than #where

Though my stomach is only the size of a pea, I could eat two politicians’ brains.
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— Jarod Kintz

#eat #eating #food #funny #humor

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#bodies #heads #how #i #just

I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it. ↗

— Kirsty Coventry

#always #appropriate #believe #i #out

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. ↗

— Alex Cox

#english #english language #everybody #fairly #gets

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago. ↗

— Stephanie Cutter

#bed #chicago #competitor #contributing #feel

Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous. ↗

— Cedric the Entertainer

#everyone #fast #four #going #move