“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.” YearsLongHas BeensSeemsPoliticalPoliticsLeftDemocracyPoliticianConcernedGreedCorruptionVotingNerdElection DayArmourPoliticians And PoliticsFunny PoliticianI Hate PoliticsBad Politics Author:Richard Armour
“There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.” PeopleWantMadeMatterSeemsLeftTroubleGroupsOughtPoliticianSafeNegativeSticksListsInstanceTargetUnfairSay Anything Author:Andy Rooney
“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” LifeMatterPoliticalPoliticsLeftSeriousPoliticianConclusionSeriousnessFunny PoliticalPoliticians And PoliticsPolitics FunnyFunny Politician Author:Charles de Gaulle
“The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.” WarLeftPeacePoliticianComplexes Book:Against the Current: Selected Writings 1939-1996 Source: Against the Current: Selected Writings 1939-1996
“By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?” IfsWayFunnyLeftRealizingPoliticianHumorousOilMinistersSandMoses Author:Golda Meir
“Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.” MindStillsSeemsLeftIgnoranceColorPoliticianFitShapesDressesPainfulReportsPantsBootsSpeakersWornReportersSenatorsCoatsOmissionVestsNeckties Book:Ginger-Snaps Source: Ginger-Snaps
“No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.” IfsMayLeftPoliticianRepublicanWingsDemocraticRacistAcademicCommentatorsLeft WingLabelingRedundancy Book:Dennis Prager: Volume I Source: Dennis Prager: Volume I
“As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.” WayWellsWould BeAgeTodaySchoolMotherLeftBoysSpecialGeniusPoliticianTenScientistFortunePsychologicalEducatedImmortalityPeculiarBusinessmanFranklinThirteenAndrewCounselingTamedCarnegieBen Franklin Author:John Taylor Gatto
“I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.” TryingLeftViewsEvolutionPoliticianOffersIntellectualRegardIndependentCritical Author:Tariq Ramadan