Quotes of: Politicians Keyword

I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don't feel that. This is just a work environment.

David Blunkett

The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.

Lynn Westmoreland

Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that bec...

Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say

The job of the politician is to speak for all people; not just for parties with vested interests, or organisations with the biggest wallets. The first people a politician should protect are those that cannot protect themselves: Those weakest and most...

The Year of the Badgers

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard ...

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about business and money. One will tell you that in a particular country a man is worth the sum he could be sold for in Algiers; another, by following this ca...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.

The Disagreement: A Novel

I trust politicians to do what’s right. For themselves.


The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.

The Education of Henry Adams

My problem wasn’t that he was a vamp, or that he was gay. I didn’t like him because he was a politician.

Foul is Fair

A blanket might make the ideal politician, because they’re warm, comforting, soft, and easily corruptible.


Brick and Blanket

A brick has eight edges and six sides. That’s nearly as many sides as a politician takes when discussing a binary issue.


Brick

A brick could be used as food for thought. Every politician should chew on that.


The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

I want to have five or six wives, and a few dozen sheep, all for my pleasure. I should be a politician.

$3.33

I have a responsibility as a human being to care for animals—including politicians.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Politicians think the only way out of a hole is to keep digging.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

Ace in the Hole

Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

The Savage Garden

That demon will trick you faster than a politician with a liquor license.

Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves

When politicians declare war, I declare my love for antilove for them.

My love can only occupy one person at a time