#politics

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources. ↗

— Dan Rather

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off. ↗

— Chris Patten

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I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor. ↗

— Chris Patten

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You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#congress #dangerous #home #just #know

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#cynical #felt #friends #had #i

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? ↗

— Mark Poster

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Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.' ↗

— Prince

#else #most #people #politics #religion