Top 1200 Bad Politics Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

There's a stupid trend in American politics right now with people who have no experience with politics and no grasp of public service as a profession just deciding that they're going to jump into it. The obvious figurehead of this whole "I am an idiot, therefore I can be a politician" is Donald Trump. People think that ignorance of a profession is somehow qualifying for that profession. It's utterly baffling.

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change.

Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

I wanted to bleach my skin so bad, but my sister always discouraged me. She'd say, 'This is a bad thing. Don't try it.'

I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.

Red flag law is a general concept. There could be good ones and there can be bad ones. You should be against the bad ones, as I am.

What I do care about is that it's an obstacle to other women entering politics, because they'll say, "Why would I do that? I have plenty of other options." And women with plenty of options are just the women that we want to be in politics and government.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

I don't play bad guys. I think that's why I keep getting cast as bad guys: because I don't want to play bad guys. I want to play human beings that struggle with life.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.

My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.

Business of blurring is fantastic. They both are playing the politics of avoidance. They avoid all the issues on corporate power, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, so on and so forth. They avoid all those. That's the politics of avoidance. All the major issues that are so much on people's minds - health care, living wage, public works, jobs - they avoid.

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.

Adam Scott sings like a bird... He's so bad. He's so bad.

If I'm sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn't mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, 'never say never.' You never know, I might end up joining politics.

No, the Pirate Bay is more like sugar - it's bad for you but you can't stop using it. Bad because you get sued for it.

Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do.

There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I'm human. I have bad games, I have bad moments, but that's me. I cannot stay on the floor, knocked out. I have to keep going.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

ObamaCare (modeled almost precisely on RomneyCare) is wrong; it was bad medicine; it's bad for the economy, and I will repeal it.

There are no bad people; there are only bad states of mind.

This is the face of our political class: arrogant, authoritarian, and on the level of some banana republic south of the border. Welcome to the New America, where leader-worship has taken the place of politics, Team Red and Team Blue battle it out to see who gets to be El Supremo for the next four years, and politics resembles a prolonged soccer game.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?

The whole point of remaining on cable is to remain true to who I am. That's a bad, bad girl that got a big job.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.

Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life.

There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.

We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.

Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as well as new international modes of politics to fight them. Social movements must move outside of national boundaries and join with others across the globe to fight the savagery of neoliberal global politics and central to such a task is the work of intellectuals, artists, cultural workers, and others who can fashion new tools and social movements in the fight against the current anti-democratic threats being imposed all over the globe.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.

I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we've lost. I'm in a bad way. I don't like to talk to anyone.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

This is politics. In politics, you only show the cake but not the ingredients. The time will come when I show you the cake and the ingredients.

I will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me. I won't last long if I give it up.

You don't give someone a first serve, if there is a bad linecall you take it, because you are going to get bad linecalls.

Hillary Clinton's got bad judgment, and honestly, so bad that she should never be president of the United States.

It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court

Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.