Paul Keating Quotes

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

Paul Keating

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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

• 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

• 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 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

• We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Artist
  • Politician

• The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

  

  Euripides
  • Pleasure
  • Variety
  • All Things

• How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Trying
  • Politician
  • Trusted

• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Without

• We can no longer contemplate the subject - self - of contemporary art; it has been woven into infinite relationships, replaced by social movements, national image, and financial capital. The disappearance of the construction of the self of contemporary art makes it impossible to exist in the form of a subject. The subject of contemporary art that I speak of is a kind of naming event predicated upon the multiplicity of the environment. It includes politics, should have its own way of thinking, and can be perceived.

  

  Wang Jianwei
  • Thinking
  • Environment
  • Impossible

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

  

  Paul Keating
  • Politician
  • Variety
  • Fixers