“A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.” LooksPoliticalSpeakBehindsFinePoliticianSpeechLowsMotiveThinkerBoastPessimistRealistCynic Book:The humanist in the bathtub Source: The humanist in the bathtub
“The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.” PeopleWayProblemGovernmentAbleTogetherInterestCommunityPolicyBuildingPoliticianLowsRateInvestorsLimbsHousingInterest Rate Author:Thomas Sowell
“Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard.” MeanDoeCharacterLevelsCommonPoliticianOfficeLowsStandardsDown And Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?” RunningActionPoliticalPoliticsPoliticianLowsAbuseAmmunitionArtillery Author:Adlai Stevenson I
“With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a drought that seemingly has no end.” EndsRunningWaterRecordsPoliticianSolutionsLowsRiversCaliforniaDryDesperateReachingDroughtStorageDamsIrrigation Author:Marc Levine
“Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only!” MenWarDecisionDyingFrontsPoliticianLowsArmySafetyAffairCoward Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.” IfsBelievePastI BelieveLevelsHonestPoliticianLowsGloryPaidThanksColonyThirteen Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.” HumansPoliticalPresidentHuman BeingsImpossibleMediaInformationPoliticianMembersWorshipLowsPraiseExcuseOpponentsOur TimeVotersAttributesCapabilityMainstreamFinestSyndromesMainstream MediaPolitical Opponents Author:Ben Shapiro
“A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.” MenMeanProudPoliticianLowsCapacityToolsStrongerSurroundings Book:Life of Thomas Hart Benton Source: Life of Thomas Hart Benton
“My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.” MomentsStylePoliticianSkillsAuthorityLowsMy FriendsCriticsPublic SpeakingSchwarzeneggerRhetoricalCriticiseCyborg Author:Boris Johnson
“We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.” PeopleIfsFallFiguresJudgingPoliticianMetsLowsStandardsHigh StandardsPublic Figures Author:Moby