#politics

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

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Everything is politics. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#politics

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#i #places #politics #ropes #televisions

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#done #grew #i #law #law school

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#like #me #people #politics

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#i #me #politics #you

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. ↗

— George McGovern

#capacity #confidence #faith #intellectual #kind

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers. ↗

— Louise Mensch

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Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#agenda #become #clear #eu #focus

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions. ↗

— David Miliband

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