“What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.” CharacterActionPoliticalCertainPoliticsMoralVirtueProduceCitizensPoliticianAnxietyPerformancesFellowsAnxiousVirtuousDispositionStatesmenMoral Character Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“The public is tired of politicians professing certain beliefs and not acting on those beliefs. They want elected officials who have the moral courage to do what they will say they will do when they're running for election.” WantRunningCertainBeliefActingMoralPoliticianElectionTiredOfficialsMoral CourageElected Officials Author:Colonel Tom Parker
“Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.” ThinkingNeedsYearsMeanLongGovernmentCertainCareersCitizensPoliticianOfficeNow And ThenSkepticismAssociatesSixteenPublic Office Author:Ronald Reagan
“Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.” IfsShouldWarStatesEnoughCertainHouseNamesTermWhiteUnitedWonderBreakUnited StatesSacrificeVictoryPoliticianArgumentPreparedFinalsOutcomesJapanMarchWhite HouseHawaiiSan FranciscoHostilityHave ConfidenceBreak OutPhilippinesArmchairsGuam Author:Isoroku Yamamoto
“Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.” ShouldKindChildrenSchoolCertainStudentsPoliticianAdultsRegardTypicalPupils Author:Anthony Daniels
“The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.” PeopleWantCertainForcePolicyPolitician Author:Angela Merkel
“Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.” PeopleFactsRealityCertainLanguageBehindsConditionsPoliticianPerceptionNegativeMeaninglessElitesObscurePreciseAssociates Author:Ron Paul
“I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative.” ShouldEndsFactsActionPastCertainLeaderFailingShareFrontsStrangeBalancePoliticianAdvantageNegativeDoctrineEnthusiasmGrantedContradictionColonialismPatriotConcessions Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't understand is, why can't they say what I say, even in their own way? Does that mean they want to be able to name certain bald contradictions or hypocrisies that politicians have?” WayWantMeanDoeRealAbleCertainNamesWishCommonPoliticianHypocrisyContradictionReportersCommon Things Author:Stephen Colbert
“All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.” PeopleCountryCertainHurtWorstPaintingJudgingPoliticianSacredRuinsChairsDriversCant Author:Man Ray
“One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.” IfsThinkingRealityCertainOne ThingSacrificeAcceptanceHumilityPoliticianDirectorsConsequenceTasksHistoricalCurrentsPompousManipulator Author:Thomas Merton
“I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.” IfsThinkingCertainReligionInternetPoliticianTerrorismTerroristCensorshipFreedom Of SpeechBans Author:Rand Paul
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” MenLifeSelfTruthHappinessCertainChangeFreedomLibertyRightsPoliticianEqualConstitutionIndependenceCreatorEqualityPursuitFourthAmerican DreamEvidentDeclaration4th Of JulyPursuit Of HappinessJulyFreedom LibertyReligious FreedomDeclaration Of IndependenceIndividual RightsFreedom Of ReligionRights And FreedomsRight To LifeAmerican PatrioticNatural RightsDeismInalienable RightsUs ConstitutionFounding Fathers DemocracyLiberty And JusticeAmerica FreedomJuly 4th 1776Price Of FreedomUsa PatrioticEquality For AllIndependence And FreedomAmerican FreedomHappy Independence Day Usa4th Of July InspirationalUnalienable RightsDeistLiberty And EqualityEquality Of ManFourth Of July InspirationalLife Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness4th Of July WishesConsent Of The GovernedUs Independence DayHappy 4th Of JulyHuman EqualityCreator God4th Of July MilitaryBest Things In Life Are FreePursuit Of JusticePopular SovereigntyRights In AmericaRights To LifeDomestic Tranquility Author:Thomas Jefferson
“We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a not-knowingness, I think, that leads us back to suffering humanity with a more compassionate vision than most of our politicians have.” ThinkingArtMadeCertainSufferingHumanityVisionPoetPoliticianArt IsUncertaintyCompassionate Author:Sam Hamill
“So what we have is an American foreign policy that is inextricably linked to domestic matters. It is very dangerous for a politician who desires nothing more than to stay in office to address the mindset that any change in policy is appeasement. And Americans will accept that for a certain amount of time.” MatterDesireCertainAcceptingDangerousPolicyAmountPoliticianOfficeMindsetAddressesForeign PolicyLinkedAppeasementAmerican Foreign Policy Author:Michael Scheuer
“I went in to play the most corrupt politician I could possibly think of [in "The Congressman"] and to do it with a certain kind of charm.” ThinkingKindPlayCertainPoliticianCharmCongressman Author:George Hamilton
“When certain causes become prairie fires, politicians make difficult choices, and often at the expense of someone like Jeremiah Wright and Walter Jenkins. That's the cruel nature of American politics, where the end becomes the consummate objective, and sometimes the means to get there come at a great price.” MeanEndsSometimesCertainChoicesCausesDifficultFirePoliticianObjectivesExpensesAmerican PoliticsPrairieJeremiahDifficult Choices Author:Bill Moyers
“I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want.” ThinkingWantSaidPoliticalCertainFatherCareersPoliticianIndiaStrive Author:Indira Gandhi
“Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen and politicians.” IdeasTodayCertainPoliticianCharlieStatesmenChaplin Author:Sergio Leone