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“I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.”

Thinking World Moments Groups Like You Politician Scientist Western British Germany Britain Ruling Western World

Author:E. P. Thompson

“But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.”

Ends Moments Democracy Politician Scientist Experiments Denial Consensus

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal the person through stance and stare, when he or she was most reflective or off guard, in order to measure the person and event unfolding.”

Persons Moments Wanted Order Events Politician Photograph Vulnerable Staring Truthful Unfolding Stance

Book:Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969

Source: Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969

“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.”

Moments Style Politician Skills Authority Lows My Friends Critics Public Speaking Schwarzenegger Rhetorical Criticise Cyborg

Author:Boris Johnson

“They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America is mired in two wars that we're losing at the moment. We have a political environment that is as poisonous as anything I've seen, at least since the end of Vietnam.”

Looks Two War Ends Moments America Political Term Environment Politician Losing Defined Vietnam Explosives Poisonous Political Environment

Author:Michael Scheuer

“When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this moment.”

Moments Action Remember Political Planets Politician Lama Dalai Political Action

Author:Pico Iyer

“I'm against American corporations buying politicians to remove limits to greed, capitalizing on other people's misery, actively creating misery on which to capitalize, "financializing" every moment of our enslaved lives. Then when China or somebody takes over, then it will be [them] doing those things that I'll be against.”

People Moments Politician Limits Creating Misery Greed China Corporations Buying Remove

Author:Greg Saunier

“There are a lot of things going on in politics at the moment which means that people can't concentrate on politicians' personalities and the characters of those who are actually running this country. This can overcome what politics is about.”

People Mean Country Moments Character Running Personality Politician Overcoming

Author:John Newman

“The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over again. You don't just get it by virtue of being a professor or a politician or anybody else.”

Moments Seems Virtue Politician Reputation Professors Deference

Author:Duncan Green

“Abraham Lincoln did have intellectual instincts, a tremendous curiosity on a broad range of subjects, and a near-photographic memory for what he read. He was, at the end of the day, a politician: politics were his heaven, said William Herndon. But Lincoln did take comfort in ideas and books, more so than almost any other president, and he went to books and ideas in moments of perplexity to sort things out. Philosopher, no, but thoughtful and "surprisingly well-read" for his day.”

Book Moments Heaven President Memories Politician Comfort Intellectual Instinct Curiosity Philosopher Thoughtful

Author:Allen C. Guelzo

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century