“All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal with it, what angers me above all else is the knowledge that all of this waste and ruin is entirely preventable.” GovernmentGrowsDealsSupportFailingPoliticianWasteRuinsResent Author:Carly Fiorina
“We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.” NeedsYearsEnoughGovernmentGrowsEconomyToo MuchPoliticianSpendingDeficitAmerican PoliticsInsistingGovernment Spending Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.” MenWorldChildrenCareAgeGrowsInterestGrowing UpPoliticianConcernAffairPhilosopherOld AgeVesselExplorersAdventurerOverflow Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.” PeopleThinkingYearsDifferentProblemGrowsSoundMediaPoliticianConflictDiseaseConcernedComplexesCongressProfitDebateTendenciesDataAnalysisSensitivePrizeCooperationBitesStaffSymptomsDifferent PlacePartisansMaineSound BitesIncivility Author:Tom Allen
“My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.” FormNamesGrowsGrowing UpGrowingWrittenInfluencePoliticianDrawsMadHeavyMagazinesVisualsSatireElephantsDonkey Author:Tom Tomorrow
“Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.” PeopleWorldGivingWritingAbleGrowsPoorClearLandCarCrimePlanetsPoliticianGiving UpRainWeakNotesSpeciesDareOilBe GoodBillionsDrivingForestsFuelSatirePalmsCropsVanishingCarbohydratesBiofuelsHydrocarbonsHeinous CrimesPalm Oil Author:Matt Ridley
“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.” WantPoliticalMotherPoliticsGrowsProcessPresidentGrowing UpSonMomPoliticianParentingBeing A MomPolitical HumorMother CarePolitics FunnySentimental Mother Book:The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy