“You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.” WorldGivingInterestPoliticianDegreesGainsIndependenceWideAcquaintanceEffectiveness Author:William Hague
“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.” ShowsBeliefPoliticianDegreesPercentVotersPollsBelief In God Author:Jack Germond
“a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.” PoliticianSpeechDegreesFairsAssetsLiteracy Author:Rae Foley
“Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man. From this principle it will follow that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest numbers of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.” MenWellsPersonsEndsGovernmentChristianFormIndividualNumbersMoralPrinciplesVirtueModernSecurityDivinePoliticianComfortDegreesDignityAgreeAncientPhilosopherCommunicateEaseSoberOne WordPaganForms Of GovernmentInquirers Book:The Works of John Adams: Controversial papers of the Revolution (continued) Works on government Source: The Works of John Adams: Controversial papers of the Revolution (continued) Works on government
“The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.” FactsLeftClassEnvironmentPoliticianDegreesRidiculousGet AwayDogmaCentreGoverningRidiculous Things Author:Margaret Thatcher
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” GovernmentPoliticalPoliticsFreedomLibertyToo MuchInternetPoliticianDegreesLibertarianExposedFree SpeechFreedom Of SpeechFreedom And LibertyFreedom Of ThoughtFreedom LibertyPrivate PropertyCivil LibertiesProperty RightsLimited GovernmentWar On DrugsAttendingInconvenienceBig GovernmentRight To Bear ArmsBearing ArmsLimiting GovernmentRights And FreedomsFounding Fathers Gun2 AmendmentInalienable RightsUs ConstitutionFounding Fathers Second AmendmentAmerican LibertyFounding Fathers DemocracyGreat LibertarianPrice Of FreedomLiberty And EqualitySmall GovernmentMinor ThingsControlling GovernmentSecurity And FreedomLiberty Of SpeechSecurity And Liberty Author:Thomas Jefferson
“The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of 'the troops,' everything that Iraq has come to represent in the American imagination - it all melts away in the 115-degree heat. What's left is the machinery of a war that, having been called into being by civilians, no longer bears a relation to anything they say.” WarNamesLeftSpeakImaginationMoralOpinionBearsPoliticianDegreesClaimsRelationIraqHeatMakersTroopsMachineryCiviliansFaux Author:Lawrence Kaplan
“All politicians are going to mask to some degree in order to present themselves in away they think will get them votes. What's different in Obama's case is that he's wearing a racial mask, this 'bargainer's' mask, and I think very effectively, whereby he gives whites the benefit of the doubt. He's essentially saying, 'I am going to presume you are not racist, if you won't hold my race against me.' So, his mask is a distinctly racial one.” IfsThinkingGivingDifferentOrderRaceCasesDoubtPoliticianDegreesBenefitsVoteMaskRacistBenefit Of The Doubt Author:Shelby Steele