A Quote by Burnie Burns

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they’re stupid.

Burnie Burns

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Burnie Burns
American - Writer
Born: January 18, 1973

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

Malcolm Bradbury

Stupid religion makes stupid beliefs, stupid leaders make stupid rules, stupid environment makes stupid health, stupid companions makes stupid behaviour, stupid movies makes stupid acts, stupid food makes stupid skin, stupid bed makes stupid sleep, stupid ideas makes stupid decisions, stupid clothes makes stupid appearance. Lets get rid of stupidity from our stupid short lives.

Michael Bassey

Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.

Judith Viorst

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

Alexander Lebedev

It's stupid the way people extrapolate the past -- and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.

Charlie Munger

The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

John C. Danforth

To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

Melina Marchetta

Social media is natural to me, and it's a very immediate way of saying something. It's the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can't ignore that even if you wanted to. I can't imagine doing politics without it.

Nicola Sturgeon

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

Mira Grant

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

Kenneth Koch

I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.

Diana Krall

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

Joseph O'Connor

When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.'