#politics

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#capitol hill #classroom #country #does #great

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#believes #best #counterproductive #demands #economics

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#ago #character #christian #culture #decisively

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me. ↗

— Walter F. Mondale

#i #mastery #me #modern #never

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future. ↗

— Dick Morris

#future #grassroots #politics #spontaneous

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#become #coercion #irreducible #justice #love

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#bring #insights #new #politics #reject

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. ↗