#cs

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#make #politics #russia #secret #treaty

Politics is the art of the next best. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#best #next #politics

Politics is the art of the possible. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#politics #possible

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#almost #become #boast #boasts #claim

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more. ↗

— Frank Black

#chord #even #first #first thing #get

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years. ↗

— James W. Black

#apart #between #coasted #daydreaming #i

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. ↗

— Lewis Black

#bad #bad ideas #democrats #ideas #nothing

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye. ↗

— Lewis Black

#absolutely nothing #because #clock #course #economics

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work. ↗

— Lewis Black

#circus #everybody #go #goes #politics

I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else. ↗

— Lewis Black

#certainly #comics #else #i #i think