#politic

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#architecture #bureaucrats #complicated #criticism #functions

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor. ↗

— Peter Welch

#casting #congress #debt #debt limit #favor

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social. ↗

— William Weld

#continent #economic #economic opportunity #found #geographic

I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country. ↗

— Paul Weller

#bush #country #disappointed #disillusioned #everyone

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want. ↗

— Paul Weller

#i #i think #out #people #politicians

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. ↗

— Orson Welles

#dumb enough #enough #i #intelligent #intelligent people

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. ↗

— Theodore White

#american #american politics #anything #arts #cannot

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie. ↗

— Theodore White

#best time #corner #exhausted #late #lie

Politics in America is the binding secular religion. ↗

— Theodore White

#binding #politics #religion #secular

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. ↗

— Theodore White

#american politics #behind #end #leaves #logic