#politics

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dog #friend #get #want #washington

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#different #different ways #holistic #informs #integrated

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#am #end #extraordinarily #get #i

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend. ↗

— David Trimble

#beam #bend #close #close attention #driving

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#big #bites #broadcasters #contempt #down

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it. ↗

— Mark Warner

#come #confounded #cynics #decisions #demand

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#center #i #left #people #politics

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#bureaucrat #fury #hath #hell #like

I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#both #early #general #i #late

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#british #decision-makers #feel #highly #i