#politics

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#called #economy #either #nothing #political

History is more interesting than politics. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#interesting #more #politics #than

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. ↗

— Eric Liu

#am #bad #balancing #big #campaigns

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. ↗

— Eric Liu

#citizenship #conversation #descending #everyday #feel

Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing. ↗

— David Lloyd

#actually #alan #always #anarchy #anything

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#find #i #important #less #like

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#embittered #lands #other #other lands #our

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#compromise #expedient #good #makes #often

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#because #been #before #corporate #corporate world

Politics is gut; commercials are gut. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#gut #politics