#pol

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. ↗

— Henry Miller

#form #induced #polite #self #torture

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#american #american taxpayer #asked #being #benefit

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#clearly #developed #einstein #first #had

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#balancing #cling #competing #disturbed #economy

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#capitalist #commercial #directed #economy #free

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#american #american politics #asked #does #god

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. ↗

— Moliere

#blunders #books #dancing #failures #fill

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration. ↗

— Alan Mollohan

#clinton #clinton administration #coincides #community #cops

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#am #carbon #carbon dioxide #convinced #destructive

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me. ↗

— Walter F. Mondale

#i #mastery #me #modern #never