“If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.” PeopleIfsWantWellsPersonsLyingKnownCrimeCitizensPoliticianTwentiesPrisonCommittedWell KnownDisrespectful Author:Giulio Andreotti
“A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions of the view must be committed to some particularly deplorable conclusion. Philosophers are not immune to this way of arguing.” WayLightViewsCommonWorstPoliticianStrategyPhilosopherCommittedArguingVersionsConclusionOpponentsImmuneSuggestingRhetoricalRhetorical Strategies Author:Dale Jamieson
“Many of the American cartoonists that want to have a job and go so much for the total right without thinking, sometimes they get a slap on the face when their politician lets them down. So it goes on and on. The thing is staying in the middle and not getting committed, trying to get the best of both and do that with a sense of humor.” ThinkingWantTryingSometimesJobsFacesMiddleGoes OnPoliticianCommittedStayingSense Of HumorSlapCartoonist Author:Sergio Aragones
“It's not enough say, "Look, bankers were immensely greedy and that they committed lots of frauds." I mean, that's not, they were set free, that sort of particular proclivity in human nature was set free to do its best and its worst. Politicians and regulators are consumers of ideas. They never have any ideas of their own, it would take too much like hard work to develop ideas, you get them off menus and you pick the ones that suit you. Financial services were set free to go beyond their rightful place, a place by which they have been restrained in the past.” MeanEnoughPastWorstHuman NatureHard WorkPoliticianFinancialCommittedFraudGreedy Author:Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky
“Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.” PeoplePoliticianEqualCommitted Author:Angela Merkel