“The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.” GivingFirstsLongReasonAttentionRichInfluenceCouplePoliticianLong TimeLots Of MoneyBroadcasters Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.” LongReasonPoliticalTimePoliticsPartyPoliticianLong TimePlatformsPolitical Parties Author:Will Rogers
“Americans understand that the game is rigged, and they've had enough of it. They're ready to fight back. They want a Washington that works for them, i think that people are getting more engaged, politically, and they're seeing through a lot of the rhetoric that politicians have been throwing out there for a long time. They want to see some real change, and I think that's what we need to work on.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsLongHas BeensRealEnoughFightingGamesChangeSeeingReadyPoliticianLong TimeEngagedThrowingRhetoricHad EnoughRiggedReal Change Author:Elizabeth Warren
“That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.” PeopleChildrenLongIdeasRealProblemFacesRichGenerationsHeroPoliticianLong TimeExcitingInstinctCriminalsPresidentialCandidatesDullLong Time AgoPresidential CandidateReal Heroes Book:Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
“The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.” LongGovernmentTermAbilityStrangePoliticianOfficeLong TimePicksScientistShort TermSelect Author:Bill Gates
“The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.” LongSometimesStupidPoliticianLong TimeTelling The TruthStupid Things Author:David Crosby
“There seems to be for a long time now a range of issues that the Australian people want to talk about, but for some reason politicians of various shapes and stripes have decided they don't want to talk about.” PeopleWantLongReasonSeemsIssuesPoliticianShapesLong TimeDecidedVariousRangeAustralianStripes Author:Cory Bernardi
“There you see how absurd the reactions of the so-called markets are. For a long time, Italy was run by one of the most unprofessional politicians anywhere. But there wasn't much pressure in terms of speculation. Now, in Mario Monti, Italy has the kind of leader you usually only get in Hollywood movies, a distinguished professor who won't even accept a cook at his residence, the Palazzo Chigi. Instead Monti's wife cooks their pasta herself - and this is the man the markets don't trust.” MenKindLongRunningTermLeaderAcceptingWifeHe ManPoliticianLong TimeHollywoodPressureReactionsAbsurdCooksProfessorsSpeculationDistinguishedDon't TrustPastaResidenceHollywood MoviesMario Author:Martin Schulz
“I think people are more in contact now with the consequences of war than they've been for a very long time. And that's what amazes me when sometimes politicians seem to forget their history. They don't look and re-learn about what has happened before. Maybe they haven't got the memory, maybe they're already too young, but you can see how we become puffed up, and how we as a nation rise so quickly if we're not careful.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksLongWarSometimesSeemsYoungNationsMemoriesForgetHappenedHavensPoliticianLong TimeConsequenceCarefulContact Author:Michael Morpurgo
“Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.” PeopleKindLongHas BeensStatesDoneWould BeSpeakSoundCuttingPoliticianLong TimeBackgroundsVersionsBudgetsBritainVolunteerUndervalued Author:Jonathan Sacks