#politic

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#philosophy #political-science #wikileaks #change

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#feel #florida #i #i feel #overwhelm

We believe that rape is rape. We believe that a woman should make health care decisions with her family, her doctor, and her God. And we believe that there's no place in that room for politicians - especially politicians who don't know how women's bodies work. ↗

— Nancy Keenan

#bodies #care #decisions #doctor #especially

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill. ↗

— David Keene

#bill #economic #error #grand #political

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on. ↗

— Toby Keith

#being #built #day-to-day #everybody #i

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#correct #expedient #get #i #i came

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power. ↗

— Herbert M. Shelton

#politics #voting #food

I don’t like dirt, because nothing is dirtier. Except politics.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #dirt #dirty #filthy #funny

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#politics #tradition #values #western-civilization #food

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss. ↗

— Alveda King

#brown #candidate #disagreed #electing #him