#political

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#axiom #enforced #experience #industrially #politically

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#i #kind #know #labour #labour party

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. ↗

— Carla Bley

#anything #get #hard #joke #political

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#character #i #intriguing #plays #political

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#build #care #leader #lots #majority

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished. ↗

— James Buchan

#crisis #economists #economy #failed #financial

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#cross #dinner #formula #get #interesting

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#gentlemen #idealism #noble #over #political

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is. ↗

— Vince Cable

#challenge #class #explain #government #how

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#belief #between #conflict #detected #divorce