#politics

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#conspiracy #exhaustion #happen #more #politics

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#chicago #country #duty #looked #most

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

#damaging #extreme #more #politics #ridiculous

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#statesmanship #equality

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...' ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#desire #disappear #factor #good #good people

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#contrary #domain #economic #element #finally

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. ↗

— Don Henley

#between #certain #ecology #focus #i

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization. ↗

— Brad Henry

#polarization #politics #stake #surrender #too

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first. ↗

— Brad Henry

#bickering #democrats #first #independents #must