Paul Keating Quotes

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

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• The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Variety

• No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Hope
  • Confidence
  • Inspiration

• Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Done
  • Interesting
  • Play

• The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Together
  • Ambition
  • Politician

• Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • People
  • Important
  • Business

• The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • People
  • Live
  • Realizing

• No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Children
  • Doe
  • Politician

• The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Politician
  • Reporters

• Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Good
  • Country
  • American

• Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Children
  • School
  • Kind

• The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Die
  • Politics
  • Politician

• Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Job
  • Trump
  • Politician

• (Walls) show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbor. ... They can't think what else to do.

  

  Frederick W. Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Wall
  • Politician

• A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • School
  • Political
  • Politics

• Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Believe
  • Dog
  • Cat

• I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Respect
  • Running
  • Luck

• I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Thinking
  • Clever
  • Politician

• I do a variety of activities like Pilates, bike riding, physical therapy, and running. I also train on the ice five to six days a week. On the ice, I work on my programs as a whole and the individual technical elements that comprise the programs.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Variety
  • Activities
  • Pilates

• Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Life
  • Comfort
  • Tragedy

• When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Speak
  • Politician
  • Campaigns

• Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

  

  Michelle Moran
  • Hope
  • Wretched

• Martial arts is a life journey. One of the things my teacher taught me a long time ago was that everyone's path to the mastery of a certain system is different. Some people's path is a very direct route, where others might wind back and forth if you are injured or something.

  

  Ryan Potter
  • Things
  • Path
  • Wind

• Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Politician
  • Variety
  • Fixers