#politic

You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#alienate #always #bake #besides #candidate

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#darkest #dawn #poetry #politics #sometimes

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day. ↗

— Danny Strong

#day #every #every day #few #follow

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. ↗

— David Suzuki

#economy #environmental #environmental protection #fragile #hear

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you? ↗

— Lynn Swann

#free #freedoms #how #more #option

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#anything #changed #illegal #make #voting

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

#activities #against #arrested #been #both

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#hopes #judgment #learn #manipulation #merely

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#exclusively #exile #ideological #moral #motivated

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#going #how #i #jobs #last