#politics

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life. ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#campaigns #dog #every #four #house

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#leave #local #long #minister #politics

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS. ↗

— Bono

#aids #both #got #politics #victims

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#bed #lie #make #must #you

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. ↗

— George Saunders

#connection #feel #human #left #might

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are higher than Warren Buffet's. If we're all equally a bunch of suckers, how could any of us be worth hating? ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#culture #politics #equality

America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which they fully expected their offspring to fulfill. So the words 'all men are created equal' took a life of its own, ultimately destined to end slavery and enfranchise women. And the words 'equal protection' and 'due process' inevitably led to the end of the words 'separate but equal,' ensuring that the walls of segregation would crumble, whether at the lunch counter or at the voting booth. ↗

— Joe Biden

#equality

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspirations #certain #clash #competitive #culture

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas. ↗

— David Brooks

#character #cover #hold #how #ideas

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together? ↗

— LeVar Burton

#come #concern #division #how #politics