#politics

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#every #hundred #poverty #stimulated #talent

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#conclusion #i #left #matter #politicians

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#become #master #order #politician #poses

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#englishmen #france #passion #political #politics

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#called #economy #either #nothing #political

History is more interesting than politics. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#interesting #more #politics #than

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#borders #challenges #creates #globalisation #instruments

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#been #doing #everyday #everyday life #find

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. ↗

— Eric Liu

#am #bad #balancing #big #campaigns

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. ↗

— Eric Liu

#citizenship #conversation #descending #everyday #feel