#politic

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#good #listeners #long #politicians #very

Very few people go into politics to be reviled. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#few people #go #into #people #politics

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society. ↗

— Ann Curry

#affect #difference #drives #hear #i

We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face. ↗

— Chuck D.

#enough #everywhere #face #front #getting

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people? ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#fellow #his #holding #inherently #life

And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#candidates #changing #country #different #donkeys

My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#called #came #dad #depression #difference

That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#country #exist #going #news #political

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#economic #former #insist #our #political

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression. ↗

— Dario Fo

#expression #freedom #freedom of expression #had #instead