“I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the Negro today. We don't have a physical slavery, but an economic slavery. If these people, who were so much worse off than the people today, could conquer their slavery, we can certainly do the same thing....I am not a politician. I'm an artist, just trying to do my part to bring this thing about.” PeopleIfsTryingBelieveStatesTodaySchoolArtistI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesWrittenEconomicTaughtPoliticianSlaveryHistoricalPaintIncludingHonestlyConquerTiesPublic SchoolEconomic Slavery Author:Jacob Lawrence
“If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the economy, but writers just have to face up to the fact that there are some fundamental tensions between the economic order and the biological order.” IfsFactsFacesOrderGrowthEconomyEconomicPoliticianFundamentalsGreenTensionEconomic GrowthEconomic Order Author:Michael Pollan
“Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.” WantChildrenDifferentCasesEconomicPoliticianDifferent ThingsUnitsImaginativeEducator Author:David Almond
“Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.” GrowthAttentionEconomicHigherPoliticianPaidUniversityEconomistEconomic GrowthHigher Education Author:Derek Bok
“The fallacy is that politicians don't really do much about social issues. They just demonize their opponents as elitists and reap the benefit. It's a stupid way to do politics. Economic issues can more often be addressed concretely, and it would seem logical for people to vote their interests in this area.” PeopleWaySeemsSocialInterestIssuesEconomicStupidPoliticianBenefitsAreasVoteOpponentsLogicalSocial IssuesReapFallacyOften IsElitistEconomic Issues Author:Timothy Noah
“For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have seen capitalism as intrinsically unstable, full of contradictions that will lead eventually to its collapse. Its supporters see it as the best way to allocate resources and rewards. Some even hint that the democratic capitalistic society is not just a phase in the historical evolution of economic systems but its ultimate end.” WayTwoEndsEconomicCenturyEvolutionPoliticianCapitalismResourcesUltimateHistoricalDemocraticCriticsRewardsBest WayContradictionScholarCollapsePhasesSupporterHintsUnstableProminentEconomic Systems Author:Raghuram Rajan
“It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.” PeopleReasonPoliticalPoliticsWealthGroupsEconomicPoliticianAuthorityPermanentLengthCynicalInheritancePublic LifeMandatesEconomic Power Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I believe we're at the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world. But Washington is holding us back. How we tax, how we regulate. We're not embracing the energy revolution in our midst, a broken immigration system that has been politicized rather than turning it into an economic driver. We're not protecting and preserving our entitlement system or reforming for the next generation. All these things languish while we have politicians in Washington using these as wedge issues.” WorldBelieveHas BeensNextEnergyI BelieveIssuesAliveGenerationsEconomicThis WorldBrokenRevolutionPoliticianTaxesImmigrationMidstDriversNext GenerationEntitlementVergeWedgesLanguish Author:Jeb Bush
“Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.” EconomicPoliticianExploitsIlliteracy Author:Walter E. Williams
“Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy” PeopleWellsEconomyEconomicPoliticianPerceptionWell BeingDestructiveGapsDay To DayStatistician Author:Nicolas Sarkozy
“When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.” GovernmentJobsProcessEconomicPoliticianActivityProjectsInvestingObjectivesConsumersProductivePrivate SectorBureaucrats Author:Sheldon Richman
“The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.” IfsWantNeedsPresidentCommunitySimplePartyBehindsGroupsEconomicWorstSeriousPoliticianRepublicanActivityCrisisDemocraticBillionsErasPostsNeighborhoodUrgesVotersMinimumRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyStimulusHeadlinesPartisansGopPalsEconomic CrisisAcornsRegistrationCommunity OrganizingVoter Registration Author:Mark Steyn
“It's truly hard to understand how liberal politicians, activists and journalists so consistently escape accountability for stoking the flames of racial disharmony while purporting to dampen them and for dividing our society along racial, gender, and economic lines while claiming to unite us.” HardLinesEconomicPoliticianGenderJournalistFlamesOur SocietyAccountabilityActivistConsistentlyDividingDisharmony Author:David Limbaugh
“The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency, and our creditors' willingness to preserve its status. By buying up dollars and loaning them back to us through Treasury debt, productive countries give American politicians cart blanche to play Santa Claus.” WorldGivingCountryPlayGovernmentRolesEconomicPoliticianUniqueDollarsDebtOilFactorsPrimariesPreservesBuyingProductiveWillingnessCurrencyReservesSnakesSantaSanta ClausTreasuryCartsCreditorsBlanche Author:Peter Schiff
“Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.” KindProblemGovernmentSpiritualTurnsIndividualSocialResponsibilityMoralEconomicPoliticianSolveSocialismInevitableWelfareMonstrousProblems And SolutionsEconomic ProblemsAuthority And ResponsibilityGovernment Welfare Book:Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America Source: Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America
“It is true that there`s an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth and all that kind of stuff.” NeedsKindDifferentFeelingsHappensStuffSidesTalkingEconomicPoliticianMouthsArgumentBoth Sides Author:Howard Dean
“It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are no longer talking about Islam, they know they will have to talk about something else, which brings the spotlight on their inefficiency. They will have to talk about domestic social and economic issues and they will have to justify their foreign policy, which is obviously something they need to avoid at all costs.” IfsKnowsNeedsIndividualSocialTalkingIssuesEconomicPolicyPoliticianCostIslamScreensSmokeJustifyForeign PolicyTopicsSpotlightInefficiencyEconomic Issues Author:Tariq Ramadan
“There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.” MadeLawPoliticalMotivationCompanyEconomicPoliticianOceanProfit Author:Paul Watson