#politics

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #america #asia #ask #britain

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

#because #believe #competitors #create #despair

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

If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics. ↗

— Charles E. Merrill

#labor #politics #regard #their #them

Everything about my politics has been about the future. ↗

— David Miliband

#been #everything #future #politics

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

#before #empathy #establishes #getting #good

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future. ↗

— Dick Morris

#future #grassroots #politics #spontaneous

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#again #back #because #change #changes

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over. ↗

— Van Morrison

#became #days #get #long #long time

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people. ↗