#politics

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

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#life

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#applause #because #go #into #people

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

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#east #may #one word #politics #practice

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#controlling #environment #politics #your

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level. ↗

— Chris Christie

#i #i think #jersey #know #level

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#civil #civil society #elected #even #ever

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#british people #coalition #doubted #election #five