Politicians Quotes
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I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.
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If a Danish politician would go up and say he believes in God, people would be a little bit taken aback by that because it's slightly different there than in the U.S. Most of Europe is not that faith based, especially in terms of the politics, and politicians don't use that there.
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You see as mayors and local officials our jobs are designed so we have more in common with our constituents than Washington politicians can ever have.
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“Barker believes that all poets should have the decency to be dead at least a century or two. I feel the same way about politicians.”
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Where taxes are concerned, there are two clear-cut points of view. There are those who think they're too high and those who think they should be even higher because, after all, politicians spend our money far more wisely than we do. The obvious solution I'd propose is that the people in the first group would pay less and those in the second group would pay more. Lots more.
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I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.
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It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.
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I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.
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Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with the comparably slow democratic processes. Many young people - and some old people - want to know, Why does everything take so long? Why can't someone just decide and then move forward?
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
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...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.
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We have a culture of political corruption in Jefferson City. We have corrupt politicians, well-paid lobbyists and special-interest insiders taking the state in the wrong direction.
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The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.
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I think most politicians think most musicians are drug addicts or ‘not an exemplary part of society, so why should they worry about putting in legislation to help that industry when they can help another industry? So, I don’t think there’s a way out, the worst thing that ever happened was the invention of the CD, because a CD is an exact copy of a master recording!
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A lot of politicians say they want to get people out to vote; sometimes you can't totally believe they really want that.
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The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success.
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I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.
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If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my humble efforts to use Science to the betterment of the human race. I despair of the helter-skelter methods of our vaulted homo sapiens, misguided by his ignorance and his politicians. If we continue our ways, there is every possibility that the human race may follow the road of former living races of animals whose fossils proclaim that they were not fit to continue. Religion, laws and morals is not enough. We need more. Science can help us.
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Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.
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There are almost half a million Americans behind bars today for breaking a drug law. The United States incarcerates more people for drug law violations than Western Europe incarcerates for everything, and they have more people than we do. There were 50,000 people behind bars on drug charges in America in 1980; now we have almost a tenfold increase. Yet extraordinarily few politicians are talking about that.
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Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.
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The wind blows wild and i may move, politicians lie and i am not fooled you don't need a razor or a three piece suit to argue the truth.
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Politicians lie and I am not fooled.
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Conservatives complain that the Supreme Court is too liberal. Liberals complain that it's too conservative. Both charges are inaccurate: in reality the Court is a careful political actor that arguably represents the center of gravity of American politics better than most politicians do.
