#politics

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#boy #boy scout #campfire #encourage #faithful

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. ↗

— James Bovard

#being #burden #change #con #important

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#labour #more #moving #new #new labour

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#bald #candidates #disagreeable #fat #how

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#least #over #point #political #politics

Politics is a people business. I like people. ↗

— Laura Bush

#i #like #people #politics

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#i #know #largely #makes #me

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#allows #behind #cape #closed #committee

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague. ↗

— Max Cannon

#culture #current #current events #deal #events

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics. ↗

— Jane Campion

#come #i #i think #modern #orientation