#politics

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#changes #conservative #consults #doubt #grandmother

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#been #business #common #discuss #dream

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. ↗

— James Wolcott

#alike #bunny #candidate #consultant #crowd

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06. ↗

— Judy Woodruff

#even #i #involved #love #maybe

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK? ↗

— James Woods

#along #because #deal #fine #however

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#bloodshed #war #while #without

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#politics #war #while #without

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#art #cause #classes #detached #fact

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#attack #criminals #family #get #i

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#body #liberty #life #like #spirit