“There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.” KnowsWayFactsHappensSimpleTalkingMediaDangerousPoliticianPressesBottomComplicatedBetter WaysSummarizing Author:Seth Gordon
“Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.” WorldTwoPoliticalPoliticsSimpleAtheismIgnorancePoliticianConvictionPrimeIngredientsVillainExtremismDiagnosisPolitical Extremism Author:John W. Gardner
“I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis.” IfsThinkingWorldSimpleWorryJudgingPoliticianCrisisLawyerConcentrating Author:Joan Rivers
“In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.” EndsSimplePoliticianServantCantPublic ServiceIntertwinedPublic ServantsPlain And SimpleTed KennedyGood Politicians Author:Chuck Todd
“Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A very simple, but very cunning trick to manipulate you. They have condemned you, because if you are accepted, not condemned - loved, appreciated, and if it is relayed to you from everywhere that you are okay - then it will be difficult to control you. How to control a person who is absolutely okay? The very problem doesn`t arise.” IfsWayPersonsProblemParentDifficultSimplePoliticianOkayGuiltCreatorAcceptedTricksArisePriestsControlledAppreciatedCunningManipulate Author:Rajneesh
“Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.” ProblemFacesSimplePoliticianSolutionsComplexesAgendasSimple Solutions Book:The spirit of community: rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda Source: The spirit of community: rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda
“I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.” TryingSimplePoliticianScientistEconomistSurgeonsBrian Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
“The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.” IfsWantNeedsPresidentCommunitySimplePartyBehindsGroupsEconomicWorstSeriousPoliticianRepublicanActivityCrisisDemocraticBillionsErasPostsNeighborhoodUrgesVotersMinimumRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyStimulusHeadlinesPartisansGopPalsEconomic CrisisAcornsRegistrationCommunity OrganizingVoter Registration Author:Mark Steyn
“The power of one! If I can't stop war in my life, how can I expect politicians to stop war in the world? I can't. And we all have equal wisdom, so if I can do it then I know that anyone can do it if their mind is open to answering just four simple questions and beginning there.” IfsKnowsWorldMindI CanWarCan DoSimpleFourPoliticianEqualI Can Do ItPower Of OneStop War Author:Byron Katie
“It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.” SometimesWisdomTruthJoyHopeSimpleEnemyRegretPoliticianForgottenBitterBitternessAnguishGloomCultivationRetrospective Author:Robert Menzies
“Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.” ShouldMeanSimpleGenerationsPoliticianPureTaxesIncreaseSpendingExposedDeficitFuture GenerationHikerTax IncreasesDeficit Spending Author:Ron Paul