148 quotes found
“On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!”
“I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.”
“Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEOs and board members.”
“politicians often had the knack of seeming to know everyone intimately. Either they had remarkable memories, or their secretaries reminded them efficiently.”
“...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is,...”
“He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.”
“Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.”
“Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. Thats why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. Its easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the ...”
“Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them. . . . mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and bei...”
“Never give a good politician time to pray.”
“Most politicians would love to lead politically blind people.”
“The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his associates...Moreover,...”
“Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.”
“The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who perceive the need of cooperation are powerless. Until education has been di...”
“Perhaps when a nation goes through a period of upheaval, those who should become politicians, do.”
“The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the experts consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provid...”
“A politician has an axe to grindWith which he aims to chop off half your mind.”
“Let us hope that Lysenko's success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another reminder to the world of how quickly and easily a science can be corrupted when ignorant political le...”
“I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician”
“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ”
