#politics

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#came #close #distortions #experience #first

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#again #always #class #cool #democrats

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. ↗

— James Stockdale

#conversation #had #haven #i #life

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

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#become #best #elevate #heart #honesty

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#allow #because #been #disperse #harvesting

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#away #fade #parties #political #political parties

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#always #end #gun #move #pick

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

#active #any #back #became #because

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#campaigns #congressional #dollars #government #may