“An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.” MayIdeasInterestPolicyPoliticianIntellectualSake Author:Michael Ignatieff
“This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,--the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.” BrainWifePoliticianJokesIllusionFemaleBillsSakePassingPassingsAbandonNeglectEquationsInfantMasculineParliamentForsakeSydneyQuadraticsQuadratic Equation Author:Frances Power Cobbe
“The environmental agenda seems swept under the rug a lot, and environmentalists are looked at as tree-huggers who aren't dealing with the real issues when in fact someone needs to be keeping an eye on how we're treating the planet. When politicians bring up the environment, they're immediately labeled as being anti-business. But for the sake of the planet on which we live, we need to take the environment into account.” NeedsRealFactsSeemsEyeIssuesEnvironmentTreePlanetsPoliticianAccountsEnvironmentalSakeAgendasEnvironmentalist Author:Rachel Dratch
“It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.” PeopleCountryPoliticianArmySakeNonsenseJoining The Army Author:Sam Manekshaw
“How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?” IfsTryingPoliticianSakeRussiaLoudFundTrustedBureaucrats Author:Vladimir Putin