I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
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.
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don’t serve us well because they don’t tell the truth, and they don’t keep their promises.
Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we’re going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn’t have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.
Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Normally, when politicians talk about ‘cutting the budget,’ they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim to have ‘cut the budget.’
Political folk talk a lot these days about ‘messaging’ – a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive – i.e., ‘Our messaging is designed to show we care.’
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
I am very worried about politicians who know that their countries are greatly benefiting financially and at the same time are saying that the European Union is not good for us. The message has to be coherent.
I’ve gotten to believe it’s more fun to play politicians than actually be them.
If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
Rather than seeking to stem the tide, our educators, politicians, and judges aid the advance of godlessness. This cannot continue if our children and grandchildren are to live in a country that still recognises God and upholds religious liberty.
Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.
When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. ‘How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?’ Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people’s lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
I find politicians globally are somewhat disappointing, not just in Ireland.
I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.
The American people don’t believe politicians. They don’t believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don’t believe the news media.
I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.
Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America.
In today’s politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They’re infuriating, all of them.
Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.
I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.
As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.
Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.
Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
What’s fascinating about doing comedy about the referendum is, because it is the first time, it is the most extraordinary atmosphere. You find that if you are making jokes about politicians, it becomes intensely political.
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Politicians shouldn’t spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren’t willing to listen to another voice.
I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I’d far rather see for myself what’s going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We don’t want politicians who’ve gotta be coaxed, cajoled and protested. We want them on our side from the beginning.
Even if politicians spew confusing, convoluted jargon, these people are still meant to represent me, and the only way that happens is if I stay informed and vote.
Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it’s valid.
McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who’d had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of the Harvard faculty. But he was also arrogant and looked upon all sorts of people and politicians as not to be taken all that seriously.
I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that’s come about for a whole variety of reasons.
Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls – before the public even knows to call them ‘issues’ at all.
You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don’t say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.
I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.
I don’t use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.
I’m really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it’s really an interest in the image.
Port Royal, Jamaica, was built for pirates. The town had a well-protected harbor, corrupt politicians and townsfolk, and a set of ethics that seemed passed down from Sodom and Gomorrah.
The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.
I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn’t. I started getting really excited about politics.
I don’t want to watch ‘Newsnight.’ I just don’t understand those politicians who genuinely want to watch it for pleasure.
Politicians always think they know what people feel. It’s a fallacy, because there is no such thing as ‘the people.’ It is a discursive device for summoning the people that you want. You’re constructing the people, you’re not reflecting the people.
I’ve always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I’m interested in politics in that I’m a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can’t get into the ins and outs of it.
