#politics

I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church. ↗

— Margaret George

#religion #tudor #education

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. ↗

— John Cusack

#core #death #extreme #fascism #kitsch

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#campaign finance #campaign finance reform #finance #grip #interests

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#purity #well

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for. ↗

— Cintra Wilson

#politics #satire #economy

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth. ↗

— Charles Edison

#before #commonwealth #even #how #issues

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#art #challenge #impossible #making #politics

I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#also #change #heard #hope #i

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#expect #family #got #know #like

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#better #broken #clock #conflict #constant