conv.politics

“The BJP spent ₹286.99 crore on West Bengal Assembly elections, which is more than half of the total of ₹529.38 crore that the party spent on the recent…”— Election Commission of India, Electoral regulator · full quotes →

“What concerns me is people who are outside of the mainstream media, who want to do reporting without fear or favor, who are going to be deterred by this kind…”— Lisa Rubin · full quotes →

“US to seek Supreme Court relief after court blocked third-country removals”— Reuters · Bluesky · full quotes →

“Päätöksistä olisi pitänyt selvitä, miten Iso Kirja ja Kansanlähetys täyttivät avustusedellytykset.”— Oikeuskansleri (Ombudsman) · full quotes →

“...a case under the provisions of the SC/ST Act is prima facie made out against the applicant (Mr Bharti) and considering the statutory bar (on grant of bail)…”— Justice Saurabh Banerjee · full quotes →

“Racism will not be defeated from above. It will only be defeated by us – ordinary citizens who refuse to look away.”— tajali1.bsky.social · full quotes →

“I do not have any plans to attend any protest at the UNGA. To New Yorkers I have never encouraged them to protest. What I have always told them is that they…”— Zohran Mamdani, NYC Mayor · Fox News · full quotes →

“Not so. It has resulted in the suppression of corruption.”— Benjamin Schiffrin · full quotes →

“If an agency needs to reduce its workforce, the goal should be to retain the people who are best at the mission, not simply the people who have been around the…”— Office of Personnel Management · full quotes →

“The party's nominees lead in Michigan and New Hampshire but the Republican incumbent is ahead in Maine, according to New York Times/Siena polls of the three…”— New York Times · full quotes →

“Trump doesn't care about the issues or the details of the meetings. All he cares about is being best buds with Xi”— Seth Meyers · full quotes →

“Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific…”— NPR · NPR Politics · full quotes →

“He insists that he's not going to be changing parties. However, a lot of people are afraid of that because of the way he has voted.”— Sandra Boyles · full quotes →

“the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, on the other hand, says peaceful protest is their constitutional right; they want the release of their leader Imran Khan from…”— Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera correspondent · full quotes →

“Republicans 'need to be their own person' for midterms”— John Thune, Senate Republican leader · Forbes · full quotes →

“It's embarrassing, like they just chuckle and laugh. It gets worse and worse every day.”— John Germano · full quotes →

“And how we learn to trust elections again.”— New York Times, Publication · full quotes →

“Sen. Husted's bill is a fraud. It's voluntary. No company has to do it. The bill we have is mandatory. It is much stronger and is what is needed.”— Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader (D-N.Y.) · full quotes →

“Publication of sensitive security information, and misinformation about national security information, diverts White House resources and those of the national…”— Trump White House, Press Office · full quotes →

“There is no legitimate, let alone significant, government interest in allowing public officials to profit personally by selling early access to official…”— Group of former prosecutors and federal agents · full quotes →

“Trump is America's commander in cheat, a politician who rarely plays by the rules and who lustily fleeces friends and foes alike.”— Tom Schaller · full quotes →

“It is self-evidently true, at least in America, that voters are not serious adults.”— Jonathan V. Last · full quotes →

“Latinos often get given the title, the sleeping giant, which I just want to rid that out of everybody's vocabulary. We should be called the swinging giant…”— Stephanie Valencia, Co-founder and president, Equis · Vox · full quotes →

“It was the Biden era that crafted those policies, not Trump. When we think about…”— Akbar Shahid Ahmed · full quotes →

“A Phoenix suburb ditched a plan to send recycled water from toilets and other sources directly to residents' taps after political candidates made unproven…”— CBS News · full quotes →

“Where do all the babies go in chemical abortions? If we're talking 600,000 to 700,000 abortions a year being induced with chemical abortion pills, where are…”— Kristan Hawkins · full quotes →

“Where there was three or four day voting, (the jet) came and got them every day and took them back like that too”— Kerry Gardiner, Former NT ALP staffer · Reddit · full quotes →

“Sexual prohibition and sexual force are two styles of a single project: the use of sex to subordinate women.”— amydiehl@mstdn.social · full quotes →

“Labour would win the most seats if a general election were held tomorrow, according to a detailed poll by YouGov, following a drop in support for Nigel…”— Bloomberg Politics · full quotes →

“That's to say, it has become a useless organization whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned…”— Javier Milei · full quotes →

“Deep depths of hell”— Source (context unclear from material) · Cleveland.com headline · full quotes →

“Russia 'truly' appreciates U.S. invite to G20 summit”— Russia · CNBC · full quotes →

“Important news - a huge MRP poll has put Restore Britain on double digits in 118 seats.”— Rupert Lowe, MP, party leader · X · full quotes →

“Restricting diesel exports would create more problems than it solves”— The Economist · full quotes →