#politics

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements. ↗

— Zola Budd

#african #feel #i #make #need

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#behind #politics #thought #twenty #world

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#because #elected #fantasy #give #i

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#emphasis #give #important #largely #matter

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#government #interested #issues #just #more

In Pakistan politics is hereditary. ↗

— Imran Khan

#pakistan #politics

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#else #err #human #politics #someone

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ↗

— Plato

#politics #political

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#identity #nation #nationalism #politics #political

…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#politics #life