#pol

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#debt limit #democrats #i #i can #increase

I like to be a strategic policy guy. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#i #like #policy #strategic

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#purity #well

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for. ↗

— Cintra Wilson

#politics #satire #economy

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do. ↗

— Howard Dean

#instead #issue #make #make up #mind

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#government #grants #hope #i #me

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle. ↗

— Howard Dean

#done #each #fact #hard #just

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#always #cookie #does #everybody #insists

Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop. ↗

— Mos Def

#because #been #black #black music #bob

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#debate #echo #like #more #often