Border/politics

Famous quotes containing the words border and/or politics:

    “Swift while the woof is whole,
    turn now my spirit, swift,
    and tear the pattern there,
    the flowers so deftly wrought,
    the border of sea-blue,
    the sea-blue coast of home.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
    —Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)