Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
... By disarming, you at once give offense, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either as doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.
~ Stendhal
... On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate you no fortress will save you...
If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!
Successful politicians are people who know how to make us think well of them without our realizing that that’s what they’re doing, they know how to make us admire and trust them.
~ Barton Swaim
Sound bytes. Catch phrases. Sales pitches. Words. All lexical legitimizing. ‘A rose by any other name…’ he said. In the end it’s all propaganda.
~ J.a. Willoughby
Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can’t bother about where they’re going.
~ Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.
~ Warren Ellis
The Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure.
~ Dana Perino
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
~ Dan C. Quayle
We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.
~ Howard Zinn
I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?
~ Dan Groat
If Lincoln were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave.
~ Gerald R. Ford
Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn't say it out loud, though.
~ Alexander Gordon Smith
I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.
~ Kenneth Eade
Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.
Donald Trump is nuts, his party is chock full of nuts too, and that is bad news for Americans with a nut allergy.
~ Steve Merrick
Trophy hunters are like politicians, they both like to pull the trigger from the comfort of a safe distance.
~ J. Bartell
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~ Doug Larson
Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
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 being privileged enough not to have to witness them.
~ Javier Marías
Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: “I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.
~ David Halberstam
Outside the box is an overused cliche which goes nowhere near far enough. In fact, there are so many politicians and salesmen thinking outside the box these days that I am convinced that all of their boxes are completely empty!
~ Lance Greenfield
Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily
I can stomach just about anything… After all, I can deal with politicians… I don’t have any problem not puking on them! —Debra Wright, KNUT Reporter
~ Ray Palla
The politicians looked after the mandarins. The mandarins looked after the central bankers and the regulators. (The governor of the Central Bank was paid more in 2008 than the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, as was the chief executive of the Financial Regulator.) The Central Bankers looked after the bankers. The bankers looked after IBEC. And IBEC looked after the government. The circle of oligarchs was watertight.
~ Shane Ross
[John Edwards] is the man that Rielle Hunter called 'real and authentic,' which tells us all we need to know about her mental abilities. This is why she can't figure out why he picked her. He could have had a multitude of sweet young things but he chose a 42-year-old who is one bleach job away from turning into one big split end, because his tumescent ego demands that he be the pretty one.
~ Florence King
Life has taught me to release my ears from hearing negativity, destructive remarks, false rumors and stupid ways. I learn to open my eyes and my mind to think ahead of my life, to learn more of who I am.
~ Auliq Ice
Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter, and something to crap on.
~ P.j. O'rourke
Our archaeological ancestry lost hair while growing sweat glands to reduce panting in the hot African sun. One outcome evolved the origin of our speech. Another conquered our ability to shut the hell up and listen. Now? Politicians grunting On the Origin of Speeches past one another.
~ Brian Spellman
Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.
~ Raheel Farooq
In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil on the face of the earth was unbending certainty, unshakable orthodoxy.
~ Howard Fast
The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory out
~ Kevin Hearne
Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won't listen to you at any range.
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 leaders deem themselves competent to arbitrate scientific disputes.
~ Martin Gardner
With good morality first candidates you'll get bad candor, bad ethics, bad loyalty and bad morality - lastly bad odor will surface to save the day if you maintain good optimism like I do.
Most Politicians Are The Whores at The Establishment Party, But We're The Ones Getting Fucked
~ Dean Cavanagh
The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.
~ Terry Deary
