#politics

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor. ↗

— Chris Patten

#backside #endeavor #getting #i #i think

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#bow #great #idealism #ideas #politics

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#minority #organized #political #politics

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#congress #dangerous #home #just #know

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#cynical #felt #friends #had #i

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#cultural #editorials #free #freedom #impose

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#american politics #couple #long #long time #politics

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#better #course #go #golf #golf course

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#accordingly #another #distrust #i #lost

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#eighteen #hours #i #more #politics