#politics

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart. ↗

— Keith Jarrett

#electric #even #heart #i #ideas

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#considered #difference #friend #i #never

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#bad #give #ninety #other #percent

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#politics #precisely #small #stakes #university

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#aid #campaign #care #countries #distracted

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#distraction #else #everything #head #politics

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#affairs #aware #destroying #doing #foreign

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#apart #change #come #else #expect

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#dignity #frankly #politics #should #thinking

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#feel #frightened #general #more #participating