#pol

I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#allowed #am #because #cannot #done

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#bombs #connection #had #his #iraq

For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications. ↗

— Alvaro Uribe

#guns #more #need #planes #policemen

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#destruction #disagree #engaging #i #i think

Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#changed #changes #demand #done #euro

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#british people #coalition #doubted #election #five

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#architecture #british #certainties #cling #completely

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#crushed #describe #down #elite #highly

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#chief #every #exercises #magistrate #public

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#art #challenge #impossible #making #politics