#politics

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

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#campaigning #change #changing #come #concentrating

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

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'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. ↗