#politic

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. ↗

— Donald Trump

#go #good #good people #government #into

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ↗

— Stewart Udall

#confused #fear #greatness #i #power

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#also #crisis #greece #greek #housing

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#apparently #candidates #cost #democracy #elections

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#campaign #combinations #decided #electoral #outcome

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#collapse #culture #economy #expected #full

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#being #being ignored #blogs #grassroots #had

What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures. ↗

— Scott Walker

#america #been #children #courage #decided

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it. ↗

— Scott Walker

#capital #get #governor #keeping #long

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention. ↗

— Scott Walker

#because #been #before #call #ceos