#politics

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. ↗

— Aristotle

#peacemaking #politics #war #political

How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#politics #political

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game. ↗

— Eric Liu

#elections #fellow #game #i #i wonder

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#congress #filibuster #invented #know #men

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. ↗

— John Morley

#because #converted #him #man #silenced

All politics is local. ↗

— Thomas P. O'Neill

#politics

I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others. ↗

— Mike Corbett

#demons #heaven #hell #intelligent-humor #politics

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#his #into #life #man #politics

More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more hideous language on the face of the earth than the American form of English, I should like to know what it is." (We should perhaps bear in mind that the House of Lords is a largely powerless, nonelective institution. It is an arresting fact of British political life that a Briton can enjoy a national platform and exalted status because he is the residue of an illicit coupling 300 years before between a monarch and an orange seller.) ↗

— Bill Bryson

#english #humor #politics #life

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#fitness #motivational #politics #life