#politics

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ↗

— Pericles

#interest #just #just because #mean #politics

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#decent #democracy #generous #healthy #honorable

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#i #politics #radio #sports #switched

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#being #important #out #place #politics

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#any #done #female #gender #increase

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#assumption #because #been #english #her

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. ↗

— Robert Redford

#art #honor #politics #putting #seductive

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#now #politics #technology #tool #tools

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#cleaned #consumption #dirty #history #innocents

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. ↗