#pol

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cry #dirty #how #irish #know

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. ↗

— John Major

#first #game #hare #intellect #long

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it. ↗

— John Major

#believe #consensus #does #keeps #people

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving. ↗

— John Major

#did #ever #everything #exactly #found

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. ↗

— John Major

#authentic #back #conservative #conventional #course

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#africa #anything #apartheid #becomes #come

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#after #american #antidote #been #bin

During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#conservative #democratic #deserve #during #flames

I think the thing that I admire about Rick Santorum is that he hasn't backed down or apologized one bit for his personal religious views, for standing up for social conservative values. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#admire #apologized #backed #bit #conservative