#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

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#blind #experience #fall #i #i think

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#literature #moral #politics #serve

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#politics #rationalism

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#enemy #friend #into #politics #way

I don't have to be in politics. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#politics

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#believing #duty #elective #elective office #error

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#because #chair #conservative #day #different