P Quotes
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“Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.”
“Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after”
Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)
“Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.”
“Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.”
“Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...
“Politicians, religious leaders, and authorities tell you to trust them because they're the experts with the answers. They make a big show of being trustworthy. That's why I don't trust them. I only trust someone who tells me not to trust them.”
Source: Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin.”
“Politicians saying one thing and doing another, celebrities though are some of the worst offenders.”
“Politicians seek to win elections not by offering sound public policy that will yield good results, but by appealing to 50 percent plus one of the voters. The way they appeal to that many voters is by appealing to the median voter. But the median voter often wants something very different than do people with strong opinions on either side of an issue. Removing the rose-colored glasses that have us romanticizing what politics is is the first step to understanding politicians. Politicians seek first to maximize their own happiness, because that’s what all humans do. Understanding this sweeps away the 1950s civics class vision of the political process in favor of a vision that is a lot more realistic.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“Politicians seem to be more accustomed to being given words to say than thoughts to consider. Speeches are part of their everyday lives. Sustained, hard thinking about policy is often less familiar. When they are given ideas, they mistake them for speeches; and, too often, when they make speeches, they believe them to be a substitute for ideas.”
Source: Just in time: Inside the Thatcher revolution
“Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is to stay on board as long as possible.”
“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”
“Politicians step up and say, "This is what were going to do: we're going to set aside 450 million dollars for a mentorship program for orphaned youth," and so on and so forth, and it sounds great in this romanticized vision of what these alleged leaders are going to do for the alleged meek. But it doesn't examine: why are these kids orphans?”
“Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.”
“Politicians talk about democracy and respecting its main attributes, but deep down they still believe that their party is always right.”
“Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this too right alongside of him.”
“Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage
(From LONE WOLF, p.50)”
“Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“Politicians that proclaim big words without meaning rule in democracy. At best they allow themselves to discover that it's better to be rich and healthy than sick and poor and that it is necessary to care for 'good of Poland" - clap clap, hurricane of clapping.”
“Politicians that run concentration camps deserve more holes than they got, yet don't, just put Uncle in a home.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.”
Source: Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
“Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.”
“Politicians throughout history have tried to solve every problem conceivable to man, always failing to recognize that many of the problems we face result from previous so-called political solutions. Government cannot be the answer to every human ill. Continuing to view more government as the solution to problems will only make matters worse.”
“Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.”
“Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.”
“Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said”
Source: Dark Star: A Novel
“Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.”
“Politicians when they are eating. They are eating alone with their family and they don't call or involve anyone, but when they are fighting. They are calling and involving everyone to fight for them and to fight with them, in their corruption battles.”
“Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.”
“Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.”
“Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.”
“Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.”
“Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.”
“Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.”
“Politicians wholeheartedly supported mandatory formal schooling, acknowledging its immense capacity to compel taxpayers, perplex parents and damage students, all the while directly bolstering the party and its devoted followers.
The ruling party implemented tax funded, education policies primarily for its own benefit, contrary to the Constitution, disregarding the burden imposed on taxpayers, parents, and children who are affected by them.
The intention from the beginning was never to benefit anyone in the country outside of the ruling party’s members, at the expense of the taxpayer.”
Source: The Homeschooling Father, How and Why I got started.: Traditional Schooling to Online Learning until Homeschooling
“Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.”
“Politicians will divide us in 100 different ways. Why not focus on what unite us?”
Source: Quantraz
“Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.”
“Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.”
“Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.”
“Politicians would be well advised not to hold their breath for youth to engage in politics any time soon. Today’s youth are the first generation to have realized for real change to occur, it must happen on an individual level rather than at an administrative level.”
Source: The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
“Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.”
“Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding
“Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies...these attackers are unwittingly destroying the sources of their own livelihood. They kill the geese that lay the golden eggs - and don't know it!”
“Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.”
“Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.”
“Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.”
“Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.”
“Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.”
“Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive.”