#politics

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#amongst #anne #art #associated #her

The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#best #challenge #deficit #deficit reduction #economic

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#i think #kind #new #old #people

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#boring #boring thing #i #interested #involved

The gun is not out of Irish politics. ↗

— Ian Paisley

#irish #out #politics

The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#foreign #foreign policy #his #john #kennedy

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#been #change #country #dictatorships #difficult

Politics swings like a pendulum. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#pendulum #politics #swings

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