#politics

As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#fact #follow #i #i think #jaded

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#arts #british #especially #force #gets

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#good #here #losing #politics #rule

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#become #business #i #i think #shame

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#creating #focus #focus groups #greater #groups

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#because #could #eventually #ever #favor

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#because #believe #competitors #create #despair

Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#agenda #become #clear #eu #focus

If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics. ↗

— Charles E. Merrill

#labor #politics #regard #their #them

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#been #both #dad #democrats #early