A Quotes
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“A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.”
“A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.”
“A politician is not allowed to get too emotional in public, so what he does is drop subtle hints that, over time, cause the public to get emotional. Once the same emotions are generated by enough people, the politician can use it to steer the public in his desired direction. Fear is an emotion that is often used this way. A smart politician knows that if he can create fear in enough people, those people will give up what they truly want in order to give the politician what he says they need.”
Source: The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
“A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.”
Source: A Taste for Death
“A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water”
“A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.”
“A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969
“A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.”
Source: The View from the Kremlin
“A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.”
“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”
“A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.”
“A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.”
“A politician often uses an example or analogy as an attempt to make us forget the question he or she is supposedly answering.”
“A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.”
Source: The humanist in the bathtub
“A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!”
“A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.”
“A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.”
“A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.”
“A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.”
“A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.”
“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
“A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.”
“A politician truly hellbent on peace focuses on education not ammunition. But finding a politician hellbent on peace is like finding snow in the Sahara.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.”
“A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.”
Source: Success and Its Conditions
“A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.”
Source: the Man Without Qualities
“A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.”
Source: The Enemies List
“A politician who doesn't write his own speeches himself is nothing but a stupid puppet who speaks in the name of someone else!”
“A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.”
“A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!”
“A politician who opposes the modification of a constitution is still mentally premature in the political field.”
“A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word 'BUT' which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative - before they tell you. Thus: 'I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but...(a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).”
“A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.”
“A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.”
“A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.”
“A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician”
“A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.”
“A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.”
“A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.”
“A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.”
“A politician... one that would circumvent God.”
“A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.”
“A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.”
Source: In Defense of Politics
“A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.”
Source: The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
“A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.”
“A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.”
“A poll when Blair left said that 69 per cent of people reckoned Blair’s legacy would be the Iraq War. I think that ignores his real record of achievement in dismantling the Labour movement. It’s amazing to think that the huge effort he went to creating a massive cash-for-honours scandal will be overshadowed. Blair was said to be saddened that he hasn’t managed to serve for as many years as Thatcher. Instead he will have to content himself with having killed more women and children than Genghis Khan. Ironically, for a man who is so obsessed with legacy, his memory will live on longer than most politicians—as a ghost story that Iraqi mothers use to frighten their children. That said, I do think that Blair stands a good chance of success in his new role of Peace Envoy. There’s a real chance that all those different groups in the Middle East will join together to try and kill him. In six months time he could be putting an end to years of suffering as he is sacrificed on an altar in the centre of Baghdad while everyone celebrates like it’s the end of a Star Wars movie.”
Source: My Shit Life So Far
“A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.”