#politics

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles. ↗

— Gregory F. Treverton

#politics #age

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression. ↗

— Manning Marable

#beyond #black #categories #construct #dismantling

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers. ↗

— Ann Miller

#girl #i #never #party #party girl

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation. ↗

— Voltaire

#politics #imagination

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#common #common sense #drained #focus #games

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#accomplish #being #career #conscience #done

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics. ↗

— Chris Patten

#am #baggage #bit #britain #carried

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

#another #call #going #helping #i

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. ↗

— Tom Peters

#around #building #cause #common #community

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#mystery #politics #life