#politics

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. ↗

— Al Franken

#back #doing #focused #getting #home

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means. ↗

— Philippe Sollers

#means #other #politics #writing

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#darkest #dawn #poetry #politics #sometimes

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. ↗

— David Talbot

#anti-war #bobby #california #came #campaign

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#live #philosophy #replaced #which #world

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. ↗

— Lord Hailsham

#away #center #confrontation #melted #politics

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#anything #fall #nothing #stand #those

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life. ↗

— Marat Safin

#could #fashion #high #i #life

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools. ↗

— Lord Salisbury

#merely #politics #really #think #tools

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#had #hard #i #involved #kurt