#politics

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there. ↗

— John Hughes

#being #elbows #get #how #i

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#administration #anyone #choice #expects #government

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#dakota #during #dust #i #learnt

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#blame #else #err #human #politics

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#going #intended #intending #neither #nor

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#against #any #care #citizen #i

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#because #been #before #companies #company

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#always #change #else #exactly #going

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#freedom #politics #religion #freedom

I cant take it like this much longer, Milt," Karen said muffledly into the big CKC shirt with its male smell, allowing herself the luxury of letting the bars all the way down for once, enjoying for just this moment the eternal degradation of being a woman. "I cant take it much longer," she whimpered, tasting it, the eternally caught and held hard in the grasp of some man, the forever humiliated heavy weight it was impossible to squirm out from under, the forever helpless except for the mercy of him who always takes what he wants without any, and that all women learn instinctively not to expect [...] That was all they wanted. That was all any of them wanted. You give them the greatest thing you possess, the most intimate secret, and they --- just take it. Well, let them have it. Let them all have some of it. Let them root and rut and rowel, as if it was no more important than that why were they all so anxious to keep it away from each other? ↗

— James Jones

#gender-politics #men #misanthropy #monogamy #power