“The politicians already in office don't want to change. A few might have it in their hearts to change and to start working for the people, but even some of the most progressive politicians are silent because they know that the candidate with the most money wins.” PeopleHeartWinningPoliticianOfficeSilentProgressive Author:Russell Simmons
“The big challenge is a suit not worn with a tie. To me, it's a very odd look. David Cameron and many of our British politicians have adopted this look. I think it is challenging for men to look chic in casual clothing. Most people just want to wear T-shirts and baggy shorts and don't really care, whereas in the old days people used to really dress well in their leisure time. The suit has become a victim of that. day to dress in an appropriate way.” PeopleThinkingMenCareChallengesPoliticianVictimOddAdopted Author:Charles Finch
“I make a great part of my living by traveling and speaking. To me, it's like being a politician, you meet your audience, you constantly see the people and they're getting younger for me which is really, really encouraging. I get older and my audience gets younger. It couldn't be better.” PeopleAudiencePolitician Author:John Waters
“Sarah Palin kept talking and talking, and the more she talks, the less compelling she can be. People say, "She's a very good politician, very deft at what she does," and whatever. And I hear that sometimes and go, "I don't know much about this stuff, but I would say no." Because the really good politician expands the audience, not contracts it. She may be getting a very vocal crowd, but it's a very specific group.” PeopleSometimesAudiencePoliticianVery GoodPalin Author:Barry Levinson
“There are laws about personal protection so it's rare to see a politician criticized. Normally, according to the law, there's a judicial problem with calling people by their real names.” PeopleRealProblemPoliticianProtectionJudicial Author:Xavier Durringer
“A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".” PeopleThinkingCharacterPoliticalLanguageFunSecretLike YouPoliticianMythAthenaAries Author:Zephyr Teachout
“This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.” PeopleBelievePoliticianTelling The Truth Author:Zephyr Teachout
“I'm not saying Donald Trump voters are a cult at all. I'm saying the attitude of implicit trust, people don't trust politicians like that, and yet a lot of people will profess blanket trust of Trump.” PeopleAttitudePoliticianCultBlanket Author:Rush Limbaugh
“For me, respect is an extremely important political term. Since I began campaigning, it has been at the heart of each of my speeches. Many people have the feeling that politicians aren't paying a sufficient amount of attention to them. And then, when the refugees arrived on top of all problems, there was a feeling: You do everything for them, but nothing for us. This mixture of frustration and fear has led to this reaction. That is why it is so important to show these people: We respect you.” PeopleHeartImportantFeelingsProblemPoliticalTermAttentionPoliticianFrustrationRefugeeCampaigning Author:Martin Schulz
“Every form of anti-Semitism, every form of xenophobia plays on the fear of the unknown, and unfortunately there are all too many politicians who know how to manipulate that. The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.” PeoplePoliticianManipulate Author:Michael Haneke
“I think I've had a long, distinguished career in public service. It just goes to show you what some politicians will do. They'll say or do anything to get elected. I know all these people. They all claimed to be friends of mine up until their mayoral campaigns. They'd call me on the phone and ask for information or come over here and sit in this chair to get briefed.” PeopleThinkingLongPoliticianCall MePublic Service Author:Raymond Kelly
“You cannot teach somebody to write a masterpiece, but you can certainly teach them how to improve their writing skills. And you can teach them that they can make their own voices more effective by being able to communicate more clearly and forcefully. It makes people feel more capable when they can write - for instance to make a request - of a politician - and when they are able to receive a reply.” PeopleWritingTeachPoliticianCapableCommunicateMasterpiece Author:Margaret Atwood
“I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation. So, the politicians and the people who make decisions very often is the one we think can make some difference. But of course they will not make a difference if the citizens or the individuals not push it or not to speak out, to possess a very strong voice about, this is not acceptable.” PeopleThinkingHomeIndividualSpeakStrongDecisionSituationPoliticianConsciousTragedyCrisisMaking A DifferenceVery Strong Author:Ai Weiwei
“The thing about living in a place like Nebraska is there aren't that many people, so your circle of acquaintances is going be much more diverse. Everyone would go to the same bar, like the local politicians and construction workers. The class intersections were fascinating to me. And of course there's a whole other conversation about what a huge source of growth it was for me in terms of understanding people and the world in a way that I hadn't in New York. I used to say that L.A. is essentially New York with yards.” PeopleWorldUnderstandingGrowthTermPoliticianConstructionDiverseAcquaintance Author:Meghan Daum
“I was getting mad at the system or the politicians or the government, and then I realized someone should talk about this stuff, and I have a big, multinational global-youth platform of kids who are going to change the world. So I was like, "I should be doing that. I should be showing this to people. That's my job." And since that time, I've been very happy.” PeopleWorldKidsPoliticianMadI RealizedChanging The WorldVery Happy Author:Shane Smith
“Every politician deep inside is authoritarian. If the person doesn't have ambition, that's not a politician. Society needs to put every ambitious, every effective politician into such a position that it helps - that this person helps improve society. That's why I'm always talking about need to change the system rather than should we go with Navalny or Gudkov or Yavlinsky or Khodorkovsky. We all have our ambitions. We're all ambitious people.” PeopleHelpingPoliticianAmbitionAmbitious Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky
“I think the anger that is being directed to universities and so-called elites at universities is actually an anger that's displaced from politicians (who promise to make things better and never do), from employers, it's an anger at the economic system that has put so many of these people out of the kind of work that once was so satisfying to them.” PeopleThinkingKindEconomicPoliticianPromise Author:Joan Wallach Scott
“Churches can easily bring together, in a short period of time, a substantial number of people, and politicians have to assume that these folks have the potential to vote. Although there's supposed to be a separation of church and state, they want to go to these churches to say hello to the people, and they assume their hello might turn into votes.” PeopleTogetherChurchPoliticianVoteAssumingSeparationHelloChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And State Author:Anthony B Pinn
“Politicians often like to suggest that their policies come about through objective thinking, but if you look at British fascists, for example, what you see - what I see - is a group of people coming to the decisions they came to because something happened to them when they were nine-years-old, or because of some deep prejudice that formed in them subsequent to that.” PeopleThinkingDecisionPolicyPoliticianPrejudice Author:Ned Beauman
“Coverage of Iraq has plummeted, because people in power no longer want to talk about it suddenly. Journalists should be over there demanding front-page coverage, lead-story coverage every day. They should be demanding that no politician running for federal office can go to bed until they say what the hell they're going to do about Iraq and what how accountable they are for it.” PeopleRunningHellPoliticianOfficeJournalist Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“I never wished to be a politician, and I despise them. I've also wrestled with it over the years, and I deeply dislike propaganda. And all art that is about propaganda, no matter how wonderful it's cause may be, I think is morally wrong. That's a major theme of my work. I don't want to control how people think; I want to show them how they are controlled by pictures.” PeopleThinkingArtWonderfulPoliticianPropagandaDislike Author:Mark Flood
“Some politicians are scared of Putin and some are extremely apologetic, actually. And I feel very sorry for this because some people who are like my friends from the left flank, they praise Putin because they see him as the fighter against American imperialism, which he is not. You know, why would you select between American imperialism and Russian imperialism? To my mind, it's exactly the same thing.” PeopleMindPoliticianPraiseSorryScaredFighterImperialismSelectApologetic Author:Ilya Ponomarev
“Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played to the idea that the great majority of poor people are somehow "undeserving," and being undeserving, merit at best very limited, oftentimes deeply coercive and humiliating, government interventions to better their finances. That narrative isn't about to disappear overnight; but it strikes me as being like a weak gruel - there's no sustenance in it, no heft behind the argument.” PeoplePoorPoliticianArgumentWeakConservativeDisappearFinanceAmerican HistoryPoor PeopleHumiliating Author:Sasha Abramsky
“The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left their education. And in the old days of course politicians used to be fish mongers or doctors or whatever. They'd lived life. These days, power seems to go to the hands of people that that's all they've done. And I'm not sure that's a good thing, because it does remove them from the realities of life.” PeopleDoneRealityPoliticianGood ThingsReality Of LifeNot Sure Author:Jeremy Irons
“America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.” PeopleCountrySometimesReasonInspirationBeautifulPoliticianPromiseSucceedHypocrisyTelling The TruthDiscouragedHypocriticalApathetic Author:Ernie Chambers
“I often quote Hitler, who said words to the effect of, "Rulers are fortunate that the people do not think." Politicians know this. Even when the public seems to be upset, the politicians know if they can put on a brave face and ride it out, they generally will.” PeopleThinkingPoliticianBraveUpsetRulers Author:Ernie Chambers
“If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.” PeopleSecurityPoliticianRepublicanThreatDemocratImmigrationCounty Author:Jose Antonio Vargas
“When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb Syria, he drew our attention to the victims of chemical warfare. And in both of the Iraq wars, politicians said, "Look at the horrific things that are happening." I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.” PeopleThinkingWarActionSufferingAttentionMoralViolenceInspirePoliticianEmpathyVictimInnocentSyriaIraq WarHorrificPacifist Author:Paul Bloom
“I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy. But I'm not concerned with politicians and what they think. And I'm not always going to succeed. I'll have missteps, but I hope that people will be patient with the show and us and know that our intentions are good.” PeopleThinkingArtistPerfectPoliticianSucceedConcernedIntentionPatientBe Patient Author:Lena Waithe
“It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.” PeopleDoeCountryWholeLiteratureJusticePoliticianHarmCriminalsAcknowledgeFlamesEntertainers Author:Charles Kuralt
“I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldLooksCoursesPoliticianActiveDirtyNaughtyDirty Work Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.” PeopleWorldGivingDoneTogetherYoungPoliticalPlanetsMonthsPoliticianHip HopHipsHopsCelebrationNationalityNovemberPolitical Systems Author:Afrika Bambaataa
“I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.” PeopleIfsFirstsTwoDifferentShowsHalfAudienceExamplePoliticianVoteHatedDifferent ThingsPhenomenonOverwhelmingHostTalk ShowsTwo Different ThingsBeing Hated Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” PeopleGovernmentEarthAmericaPoliticalDemocracyPoliticianIndependenceMajorityCivil WarPatrioticAmerican HistoryPatriot4th Of JulyJulyAmerican Civil WarDemocracies HaveIndependence DayHuman FreedomAmerican PatrioticOvalGreat PatrioticVoting And DemocracyAmerican PatriotPerishingIndependence Day PatrioticGettysburgJuly 4th 1776SecessionIndependence And FreedomAmerican FreedomHappy Independence Day UsaHarbingerHappy Independence Day IndiaLand Of The FreeInspirational PatrioticHappy Independence DayStates RightsDemocracy In AmericaInspiring Independence DayPatriot DayEconomic GlobalizationInspirational FreedomFunny 4th Of JulyGettysburg AddressVeterans And FreedomAmerican Independence DayInspiring PatrioticCinco De MayoHouse DividedMade In America Author:Abraham Lincoln
“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.” PeopleMenPoliticalPoliticsFreedomLibertyPoliticianMen And WomenVoteElectionElection Day Author:Franklin P. Adams
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.” PeopleInspirationalBelieveCountryPoliticalPoliticsBeliefTroubleFoolPoliticianConviction Author:Franklin P. Adams
“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.” PeopleSelfStoriesUsePoliticalPoliticsWaterFreedomLearningFoolOughtHabitPoliticianFitWorthySwimEvidentPropositionsMaxims4th Of JulyJulyIndependence DayIndependence Day PatrioticJuly 4th 1776Usa Patriotic4th Of July InspirationalFourth Of July InspirationalJuly 4 Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.” PeopleBelieveDoePoliticianQuietConsensus Author:John Major
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” PeopleInspirationalLeadershipLinesBehindsLeaderVisionNiceFrontsDangerVictoryPoliticianAppreciateAppreciationCelebrateCelebrationInsperationalNice ThingsWorld LeaderBusiness LeadershipBeing A LeaderInspiring LeaderEffective LeadershipLeadership By Famous LeadersBest LeaderMotivational LeadershipServant LeadershipGreatest LeadershipFuture LeadersOutstanding LeadershipPowerful LeadersOutstanding LeadersFrontlineBecoming A LeaderAppreciate People Author:Nelson Mandela
“I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.” PeopleThinkingReasonWholeBreakPoliticianVarietyBreaking Down Author:Theresa May
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” PeopleKnowsWantHardPoliticsFreedomCommonDemocracyTheoryPoliticianDeserveDemocracies HaveVoting And Democracy Author:H. L. Mencken
“As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.” PeopleFeelsFactsPoliticianRelate Author:Angela Merkel
“Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.” PeoplePoliticianEqualCommitted Author:Angela Merkel
“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
“Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.” PeopleCountryAmericaPoliticalEconomyGrowingEconomicPoliticianModelsSolutionsEconomicsRejectionRejectsLatinRejectedImperialismGlobalizationLatin AmericaArgentinaProblems And SolutionsVenezuelaNeoliberalismEconomic ModelsEconomic Globalization Author:Evo Morales
“No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.” PeoplePoliticianBritishDespised Author:Steven Morrissey
“Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.” PeopleFirstsLyingBreakPoliticianPromiseBarackTortureAccomplished Author:Bob Beauprez
“Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.” PeopleSelfRunningPoliticalDutyPoliticianJuryPolitical SystemsJury Duty Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.” PeopleWorldArtistPersonalityPoliticianComplexes Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.” PeopleGivingPoorPoliticianVoteDollarsBillionsCampaignsFundCharitableDisenfranchised Author:Joyce Carol Oates