#politics

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. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#american politics #anything #avoidance #issues #politics

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years. ↗

— Donald T. Regan

#anything #congress #four #good #had

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#economic #effect #environment #etc #everything

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#council #elected #fond #i #i love

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#politics #rebellion #rebellion

It's when the 'international community' expresses 'concern' about your 'situation' that your situation is well and truly fucked. ↗

— Michael D. Weiss

#geopolitics #inaction #international-community #politics #syria

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#safety

...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy-voting #election #elections #false-promises #government

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#government #politics #republican #elections