#politics

And for once, Donald Rumsfeld, in the news at the time over the Iraq war made sense to me: "As we know," he said, famously, "there are known knowns-things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns-things we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns- things we don't know we don't know. ↗

— Benjamin Mee

#politics #change

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly. ↗

— Bill Frist

#american #american people #aside #falls #people

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

#caught #completely #directly #english #felt

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#nothing #politics #religion #say #those

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#ambition #australians #become #describe #election

Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right. the United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent.It's history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#politics-of-the-united-states #intelligence

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

#am #anything #free #government #i

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#either #feet #go #happening #lenin

If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#much #politics #really #show #world

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy. ↗

— Lyman Beecher

#been #controversy #great #made #politics