#politics

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#always #apart #beijing #beirut #better

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon. ↗

— David Frum

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I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on. ↗

— Helen Gahagan

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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. ↗