#politics

If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#much #politics #really #show #world

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy. ↗

— Lyman Beecher

#been #controversy #great #made #politics

Politics is show business for ugly people. ↗

— Paul Begala

#people #politics #show #show business #ugly

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#better #bright #child #day #forward

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. ↗

— Fawn M. Brodie

#both #combination #either #friendship #insatiable

E eu pergunto aos economistas políticos, aos moralistas, se já calcularam o número de indivíduos que é forçoso condenar à miséria, ao trabalho desproporcionado, à desmoralização, à infâmia, à ignorância crapulosa, à desgraça invencível, à penúria absoluta, para produzir um rico? ↗

— Almeida Garrett

#money #politics #money

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#am #bloodstream #bones #definitely #get

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#close #closest #closest friend #death #died

Politics is a highly tribal business. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#highly #politics #tribal

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. ↗

— Angela Davis

#against #american #black #bound #fight