#politic

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#carolina #colorful #colorless #does #excel

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#building #democratic #democratic party #dependence #depends

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#artist #back #best #figured #get

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#better #decisions #difficult #difficult decisions #doing

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#best #call #cheap #days #fad

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight. ↗

— Tony Blair

#any #conducted #easy #least #life

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. ↗

— Tony Blair

#care #feel #know #lives #misunderstood

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. ↗

— Tony Blair

#always #big #century #cold #cold war

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#highest #ideas #instead #into #introduction

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#politics #possession #power #real