#politics

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game. ↗

— Eric Liu

#elections #fellow #game #i #i wonder

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#congress #filibuster #invented #know #men

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game. ↗

— Joe McGinniss

#been #con #game #politics #sense

In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#conservatism #doubt #economic #economy #future

All politics is local. ↗

— Thomas P. O'Neill

#politics

I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others. ↗

— Mike Corbett

#demons #heaven #hell #intelligent-humor #politics

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#life

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#interested #out #politics #westminster #who

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#ensure #i #i think #leave #levels

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#answer #any #been #gonna #never