#seats

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. ↗

— Orson Welles

#donald #donald duck #duck #election #politicians

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#affected #all things #between #briefings #candidate

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

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#cent #corporate #fifteen #heads #hundred

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#division #economic #first #first of all #highest