#politics

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#come #congress #discuss #evening #family

My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do. ↗

— Mick Mulvaney

#before #believe #dad #day #eventually

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#good #hopes #humble #modest #otherwise

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#diversion #eyes #important #men #more

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#done #greatest #greatest problem #japanese #last

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amendment #compromise #constitution #embodied #expedient

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#difficult #discern #liberty #religious #religious liberty

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#across #after #been #gave #glad

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics. ↗

— William Odom

#i #politics #presidents #served #under

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? ↗

— George Orwell

#any #appears #cannot #creed #draw