Famous Quotes

"The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics."

Michael Pollan on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Michael Pollan

• "High-quality food is better for your health."

• "People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."

• "Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

• "My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."

• "In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn."