#politics

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt. ↗

— Nate Silver

#guess #i #like #much #people

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics. ↗

— Nate Silver

#competition #data #discovered #i #like

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. ↗

— Nate Silver

#getting #off #one thing #people #politics

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. ↗

— Peter Singer

#anonymity #beyond #brought #deception #each

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#almost #art #beauty #bourgeois #century

But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #politics #funny

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#history #less #moment #politics #than

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#given #politics #spectacle #way

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth. ↗

— Peter Steele

#else #end #fifteen #foot #i

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#am #any #campaign #enough #experienced