#politics

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. ↗

#become #cannot #close #exercise #governments

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#cast #count #decide #election #enough

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#only #perhaps #politics #preparation #profession

A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics. ↗

— Roger Stone

#because #bimbo #brother-in-law #calls #candidate

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#been #bloody #consequences #easy #horrifying

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#live #philosophy #replaced #which #world

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. ↗

— Lord Hailsham

#away #center #confrontation #melted #politics

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ↗