“Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingI CanGovernmentCareersTakenShareOughtPoliticianCandidatesConventionalCareer Politicians Author:Brad Wenstrup
“Where taxes are concerned, there are two clear-cut points of view. There are those who think they're too high and those who think they should be even higher because, after all, politicians spend our money far more wisely than we do. The obvious solution I'd propose is that the people in the first group would pay less and those in the second group would pay more. Lots more.” PeopleThinkingShouldFirstsTwoViewsPayClearCuttingGroupsHigherPoliticianTaxesSolutionsConcernedObviousPoint Of ViewPropose Author:Burt Prelutsky
“I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.” ThinkingLittlesEnvironmentPoliticianPromiseRegardDisappointmentOfficialsElected OfficialsLittle Faith Author:Paul Watson
“Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive.” ThinkingHumansHelpingMovingHuman BeingsAlivePoliticianPleaseMadThink Of You Author:Peggy Noonan
“I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and will use money to get votes. If you look at inflation under the Roman Empire, with absolute rulers, they had much greater inflation, so we don't set the record. It happens over the long-term under any form of government.” IfsThinkingLooksLongUseGovernmentHappensFormTermDemocracyRecordsGreaterPoliticianVoteAbsolutesLong TermEmpiresPrintRulersInflationForms Of GovernmentRoman Empire Author:Charlie Munger
“Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.” ThinkingArtistAnswersPolitician Author:Marjane Satrapi
“I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.” PeopleThinkingShouldResultsToo MuchFocusPositivePoliticianAspectBeefPositive Things Author:LL Cool J
“Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsLittlesActorsCan DoPoliticianShyLittle ThingsOutgoing Author:Shirley Temple
“If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics - and this is, I think, probably a horrible analogy - but I look at politicians as they are doing what inherently they need to do to retain power. Their job is to consolidate power. When you go to the zoo and you see a monkey throwing poop, you go, 'That's what monkeys do, what are you gonna do?' But what I wish the media would do more frequently is say, 'Bad monkey.'” IfsThinkingNeedsLooksJobsPoliticsWishMediaPoliticianHorribleThrowingMonkeysAnalogiesZoosPoopSaddlesBurrs Author:Jon Stewart
“In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldShouldRealPoliticianReal LifeCorporationsScare Author:Guillermo del Toro
“People who are slavish to a fantasy ideology become very lonely in the world. It's very alienating and sometimes reality is very threatening to this magical way of thinking. On the other hand, if it is a politician or leader that chooses for whatever reason to remain in this state of magical thinking, then they should be called out for it strongly and repeatedly.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWaySometimesReasonHandsRealityLeaderFantasyPoliticianLonelyIdeologyThreateningWay Of Thinking Author:Mark Ruffalo
“A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.” ThinkingAdvicePoliticianProportionWillingnessGood AdviceInverse Author:Patrick Caddell
“One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.” IfsThinkingRealityCertainOne ThingSacrificeAcceptanceHumilityPoliticianDirectorsConsequenceTasksHistoricalCurrentsPompousManipulator Author:Thomas Merton
“I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are the ONLY politicians with values.” PeopleThinkingValuesPoliticianMoralityTiredLibertarianI'm TiredHogwash Author:Peter McWilliams
“Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.” IfsThinkingGovernmentDemocracyPoliticianPromiseRiversBridges Author:Nikita Khrushchev
“I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't just hear the politicians and the military leaders. You have to hear from the taxi drivers. You have to hear from the painters. You have to hear from the poets. You have to hear from the school teachers and the filmmakers and musicians.” ThinkingWorldNeedsDifferentSchoolVoiceLeaderTeacherMilitaryPoetPoliticianRight NowMusicianPainterFilmmakerDriversComing OutTaxiSchool TeachersMilitary LeaderDifferent Voices Author:Michael Franti
“If politicians would think more they would act less.” IfsThinkingIdeasPolitician Author:George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
“I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.” IfsThinkingCertainReligionInternetPoliticianTerrorismTerroristCensorshipFreedom Of SpeechBans Author:Rand Paul
“I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.” ThinkingMaySometimesWould BeRunningKidsPoliticianJokesStandingGovernorsOvationGood Politicians Author:Liberace
“Why I've never been that fond of politics and only got into it recently kicking and screaming, because I don't think politicians are going to reverse the trajectory of this country. I think it's going to depend on the American people understanding what is fair and what makes their lives better.” PeopleThinkingCountryUnderstandingDependsPoliticianFairsReverseKickingTrajectory Author:Charles Koch
“I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that is even close to what people were paying under Eisenhower. Do people think America wasn't ascendant and wasn't an upwardly mobile society under Eisenhower in the '50s? Nobody was looking at the country then and thinking to themselves, "We're taxing ourselves into oblivion." Yet there isn't a politician with balls enough to tell that truth because the whole system has been muddied by the rich. It's been purchased.” PeopleThinkingShouldHas BeensCountryEnoughWholeAmericaRichPoliticianTruth IsTaxesBallsRateLots Of MoneyOblivionMobilePaying Taxes Author:David Simon
“I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.” IfsThinkingSometimesMatterReasonHappensPoliticianPersuadingConning Author:Tony Blair
“The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsCarePoliticianMisunderstood Author:Tony Blair
“These self-anointed intellectuals are people who think that those who believe in God and Jesus Christ, those who 'cling to their guns and their religion,' are a lower form of animal life, while they, themselves, have no problem whatever accepting Obama as a messiah and, in the past, deifying the likes of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Let's face it, when you kneel in a church, you're accepting that there is something greater and wiser than yourself in the universe. When, on the other hand, you kneel to a left-wing politician, you're merely emulating Monica Lewinsky.” PeopleThinkingBelieveSelfProblemHandsPastFacesFormUniverseJesusLeftChristChurchAnimalAcceptingGreaterPoliticianGunJesus ChristBillsWingsClintonLikesBelieve In GodWiserNo ProblemJimmyCarterMessiahLeft WingAnimal LifeMonica Author:Burt Prelutsky
“Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn't that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.” ThinkingKnowsWantWritingTryingWellsMeanWeekPoliticianPressesVotersCeo Author:Bill Gross
“I think that fear of the mob, the expectation that people, particularly poor and nonwhite people become mobs almost automatically in the absence of coercive authority, is inculcated by the media, the movies, and politicians.” PeopleThinkingPoorMediaPoliticianAuthorityExpectationsAbsence Author:Rebecca Solnit
“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?"” PeopleThinkingWayCharacterPoliticalAsksGamesFunPoliticianAthenaAries Author:Zephyr Teachout
“Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."” PeopleThinkingBelieveWellsMightEnergySoundPoliticianDon't BelieveTelling The TruthTowersPollsRenewable Energy Author:Zephyr Teachout
“People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.” PeopleThinkingMatterLyingPolitician Author:Zephyr Teachout
“Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think.” ThinkingShouldFirstsWellsPoliticianWeaponsNuclearNuclear Weapons Author:Abdus Salam
“I think more to the point, these pivotal times means something other than a politician. I understand the economy. I understand the world. I have a lot of foreign policy experience. I understand bureaucracies. I understand technology, and I understand leadership.” ThinkingWorldMeanTechnologyEconomyPolicyPoliticianForeign PolicyBureaucracyPivotal Author:Carly Fiorina
“We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a not-knowingness, I think, that leads us back to suffering humanity with a more compassionate vision than most of our politicians have.” ThinkingArtMadeCertainSufferingHumanityVisionPoetPoliticianArt IsUncertaintyCompassionate Author:Sam Hamill
“They seemed like a team. And I think it is fair to say that Roosevelt was the consummate politician and that Eleanor was the socially conscious activist. It gave them a nice combination of yang and yin, which they took advantage of. And I think it worked very well for them politically.” ThinkingWellsNiceTeamPoliticianConsciousAdvantageFairsCombinationActivistEleanorYang Author:William A. Rusher
“I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a shrewd politician, and very good in public relations, although she had the usual media help in this. As a Republican and a conservative, I can say ruefully that the Democrats and the liberals tend to get it; that when she said something, it was put in a nice way and highlighted properly by the appropriate media, so that it sounded good.” ThinkingWaySaidI CanHelpingNiceMediaPoliticianRepublicanRelationDemocratVery GoodConservativeAppropriateUsualPublic RelationsEleanor Author:William A. Rusher
“I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.” ThinkingHumansHas BeensPastFacesPoliticalRightsPoliticianLuckyHuman RightsJailActivistHong KongProsecution Author:Joshua Wong
“I think one could argue that there's more political input into the regulatory side, and on the regulatory side there seem to be fewer people with financial and banking experience - there are more lawyers, academics, economists, maybe politicians now.” PeopleThinkingSeemsPoliticalSidesPoliticianFinancialLawyerArguingFewerEconomistBankingInput Author:Jamie Dimon
“I like to tell the streets what the political climate is, and I like to tell any politicians that's listening what the streets think. And sometimes people get nicked up and bruised up, but I usually have a lot of good medicine for that.” PeopleThinkingSometimesPoliticalStreetsListeningPoliticianMedicineClimateBruised Author:Ice Cube
“I think I want to go in to law or oncology, as those are both subjects that really interest me, but my parents say that I should be a politician since I am so good at arguing!” ThinkingWantShouldLawParentInterestSubjectsPoliticianArguingOncology Author:Joshua Rush
“Don't listen to me. I'm not a politician. I know nothing about politics. But people are cheering when something very bad happens to him [Donald Trump]. So that's got to make you think before voting for him.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHappensTrumpPoliticianVotingCheerMake You ThinkListen To Me Author:Sacha Baron Cohen
“People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing.” PeopleThinkingPoliticianRepublicanDemocratComing OutStarving Author:Benjamin Carson
“I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the lesson for Jeb Bush is politicians shouldn't write books with long lead times.” PeopleThinkingWritingLongBookWould BeRealizingPoliticianRepublicanLessonsImmigrationReformFilesSympatheticImmigration Reform Author:E. J. Dionne
“I thought Donald Trump approach on Brexit was a fascinating window into how he thinks. His basic point was that [David] Cameron should resign because he didn't read the public mood on the issue right. And that Boris Johnson should be the next prime minister because he did. That's a very different definition of leadership than many politicians have. Or at least say they have.” ThinkingShouldDifferentNextIssuesTrumpPoliticianApproachWindowDefinitionsMoodMinistersFascinatingPrimePrime MinisterJohnsonCameronDefinition Of Leadership Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza
“The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters - think of the interest when David [Cameron] launched WebCameron, or Tony Blair's rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube.” ThinkingInterestInternetPoliticianEasierCommunicateVotersEmbarrassingYoutubeBlair Author:Theresa May
“Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.” ThinkingPersonsActorsPoliticianAthleteTarget Author:Park Dietz
“I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.” ThinkingShouldLongHas BeensWarDonePoliticianShould HaveDisasterAdministrationPostsHungPost War Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.” ThinkingDealsSituationImpossiblePoliticianLateIllToo LateImpossible Situations Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.” ThinkingKnowsShouldIssuesJudgingPoliticianElectionVoters Author:Jon Kyl
“I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians.” ThinkingYearsPoliticianMetsMagazinesJournalistLamaDalaiTime MagazineDeep Thinking Author:Pico Iyer
“I probably not as likely to say what's on my mind, and I think most people aren't. It's not something I would want to always be doing. So that's why I'm not a politician.” PeopleThinkingWantMindPolitician Author:Ivanka Trump
“I think too many politicians are not listening to the men and women they represent, and if we're going to change the path America is on, we have got to be fighting for policies not that benefit the giant corporations and the banks and the special interests and the lobbyists, which is what Washington focuses on every day, but instead every policy needs to focus on the working men and women, the truck drivers and the steelworkers, and the young people.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenNeedsAmericaYoungFightingInterestPathFocusSpecialPolicyHe ManListeningPoliticianBenefitsMen And WomenCorporationsGiantsDriversTruckSpecial InterestsLobbyistsWorking ManTruck Driver Author:Ted Cruz