Top 1200 Crooked Politicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

The Senate could use more people who had to sweat for a living and fewer of the politicians who made this mess.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.

Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.

Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

Fathers need to be made aware of their responsibilities - and that's up to all of us to communicate, as parents, as politicians and as members of a community.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.

Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now.

We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages.

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

'Uprising' was requested by so many politicians in America for use in their rallies, and we turned them down on a regular basis.

It's unbearable to see the people betrayed time and again by politicians who don't keep their promises and by the technocrats at the European Union.

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.

We can have all the walkouts we want, but if we don't walk to that ballot box and make our voices heard, these politicians aren't going to listen.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. And his smile was pretty crooked, really. But it was as if something had changed inside Tally's head, something that had turned his face pretty to her.

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

There are only a handful of politicians who are truly great on Twitter - the rest rely on their account to release press releases.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Politicians or well connected people will try to get hold of federations and they don't think about sportspersons.

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.

We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke a famine.

Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

Maybe we shouldn't be too dependent on politicians trying to make us believe that we are safe only because of their actions.

You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.