“I met the former president of Iceland [Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir] once. I think she was president for, like, 16 years or something. She said she used to get letters from little boys saying, "Madam President, do you think it will ever be possible for a boy to be president?" Just like we assume that girls can't be politicians, they were assuming boys can't. That's what they thought. It's so crazy.” ThinkingYearsLittlesSaidUsedGirlPresidentBoysCrazyPoliticianMetsLettersAssumingFormerLittle BoysThat GirlIceland Author:Geena Davis
“In my political philosophy - which is definitely more socialist Democrat than centrist politician like Hillary Clinton - I think regulation for banks and those platforms that Bernie Sanders had are good for the whole of America.” ThinkingPhilosophyWholeAmericaPoliticalPoliticianClintonDemocratRegulationPlatformsSocialistPolitical Philosophy Author:David Cross
“I think it's important to understand that a cartoonist is not drawing for favourable reviews from politicians. What we're trying to do is capture the popular feeling of the time about a politician or a particular political issue. For that reason I think it sums up public attitudes that is very helpful to historians down the road.” ThinkingTryingImportantReasonFeelingsPoliticalAttitudeIssuesParticularPoliticianDrawingHelpfulReviewsCaptureHistorianDown The RoadCartoonistPolitical Issues Author:Terry Mosher
“I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers at the end of the street, and your life's in misery, and you're afraid of your kids going out the door. I mean, the job of progressive politicians is to do something about that.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanEndsStatesKidsJobsIssuesDoorsStreetsCrimeHugePoliticianDrugMiseryProgressiveGoing OutPoorestDealerDrug Dealers Author:Tony Blair
“Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.” ThinkingDoneAmericaGivenRaceLeaderMusicChangedPoliticianRelationHip HopCreditStatementsHipsHopsRace Relations Author:Jay-Z
“I went in to play the most corrupt politician I could possibly think of [in "The Congressman"] and to do it with a certain kind of charm.” ThinkingKindPlayCertainPoliticianCharmCongressman Author:George Hamilton
“I think the scary thing is that there is in place already a sprawling infrastructure of advocacy groups, think tanks, academics and candidates and politicians funded by the Kochs and other deep-pocketed groups on the far right ready to attack Hillary Clinton.” ThinkingGroupsReadyPoliticianClintonScaryCandidatesInfrastructureTanksAdvocacyScary Things Author:Jane Mayer
“People think that politics just somehow magically organizes itself. It doesn't work that way. You need to assemble these huge coalitions of 535 politicians on Capitol Hill, and tens of thousands of interest groups, and tens of millions of voters, and assemble all those in government to get stuff done.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsDoneGovernmentStuffInterestMillionsGroupsHugePoliticianHillsVotersOrganizeCoalitionsCapitolInterest GroupsCapitol Hill Author:Jonathan Rauch
“I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.” ThinkingFactsCultureSoundPoliticianNewsBitesPopular CultureSound Bites Author:Barack Obama
“I think Donald Trump is new. He's a business guy running for president. So, you're not going to see a conventional campaign because he is not a conventional politician. He's not even a politician.” ThinkingRunningGuyPresidentTrumpPoliticianCampaignsConventional Author:Paul Ryan
“I think that when we talk about the regulators and the politicians, the economic consequences of bad decisions back in '08, you know, were devastating, and they had repercussions throughout the world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldDecisionEconomicPoliticianConsequenceRepercussionsBad DecisionRegulators Author:Hillary Clinton
“I campaigned for [Dennis] Kucinich in 2008. I continue to be in touch with him and I really admire him. I think he's very brave and honest - unusually so for a U.S. politician.” ThinkingHonestPoliticianBraveAdmire Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I have to say that I think Bernie Sanders is the first politician since Dennis Kucinich that I've been truly inspired by. Where you actually are truly speaking truth to power, in a legitimate way and in an unpretentious and very straightforward way.” ThinkingWayFirstsPoliticianInspiredStraightforward Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.” ThinkingPoliticianClintonEggsGood Politicians Author:Joss Whedon
“Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don't think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries - the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others - you've got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.” ThinkingCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesPoliticianElementsAppealsGermanyRemoveFascismTacticsPolandHungaryPlaybooks Author:Adam Hochschild
“I think we've created a system here where only the lifelong politicians, who are used to this kind of life in the spotlight and don't care, or people who have egos along the lines of Donald Trump - who just don't care what people say about them - they're the only people who are ever going to run because nobody wants their life dissected as meanly and as randomly as our media has come to do with anybody who runs for office.” PeopleThinkingWantKindCareRunningUsedLinesMediaTrumpPoliticianEgoOfficeDon't CareLifelongSpotlight Author:Mitch Albom
“I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.” ThinkingWayChildrenStillsFatherPolicyPoliticianUnderstoodIndiaBlindObsessiveBlind Faith Author:Indira Gandhi
“I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want.” ThinkingWantSaidPoliticalCertainFatherCareersPoliticianIndiaStrive Author:Indira Gandhi
“I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.” ThinkingNeedsShouldWould BeViolencePolitician Author:Pierre Trudeau
“If a politician is running in your local community who's pro-choice, who's feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some money! If you have no money but have time, lick stamps!” IfsThinkingRunningChoicesCommunityBehindsPoliticianFeministLocalsStampsNo MoneyLocal Community Author:Ani DiFranco
“I certainly think one of the really amazing things about Mr. Trump's victory is there's been an immediate - what one of my friends calls a jump-to-the-Trump in Australia. So you've got politicians of all sides looking at this amazing result in America and thinking, I'd like a bit of that. Can I have a bit of that? And so the opposition leader has been talking about immigrants stealing people's jobs. The prime minister has started talking about media elites in exactly the same terms as President-elect Trump.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensJobsAmericaBitsSidesPresidentTermResultsTalkingLeaderMediaTrumpVictoryPoliticianLaughterMy FriendsStealingMinistersOppositionAustraliaImmigrantsPrimeElitesPrime MinisterAmazing ThingsReally Amazing Author:Richard Glover
“I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.” ThinkingWayWould BeEasyPoliticianClintonCleverStereotypeJohn KerryVery Clever Author:Maureen Dowd
“I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.” PeopleThinkingTodayHeardPolitician Author:Barack Obama
“I think that the black people in this country have the reached the point where they should reserve the right to do whatever is necessary to see that they exercise complete control over the politicians in the politician, in the politics of their own community by whatever means necessary.” PeopleThinkingShouldMeanCountryBlackCommunityPoliticianExerciseBlack PeopleReserves Author:Malcolm X
“The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.” ThinkingMenUsedHe ManPoliticianVoteTongueBitesDeceitfulDeceiver Author:Malcolm X
“I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.” ThinkingMayImportantDifferentCountrySituationExamplePoliticianConservativeDrawingTraditionalFranceMinistersPensPrimePrime MinisterParallelsTheresa Author:Barack Obama
“I think if you worked at the community level in Chicago and then a politician on the South Side of Chicago, and worked at the state level, then you're pretty familiar with all the variations of politics in the African American community and criticisms you may get. If you're not familiar with those or you don't have a thick enough skin to take it, then you probably wouldn't have gotten here.” IfsThinkingMayStatesEnoughSidesCommunityLevelsPoliticianCriticismSkinsSouthFamiliarAfrican AmericanChicagoThickVariationYou Re Pretty Author:Barack Obama
“The concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why." "They need to learn their why." "That politician needs to understand his why." We talk about it as a noun. That never existed prior to 2009. That never existed prior to 2006 when I first started articulating it. This is the most amazing thing to me. It has now become a concept. It's part of the way we think about businesses and transactions and decisions.” ThinkingKnowsWayNeedsFirstsDecisionCompanyPoliticianConceptsAmazing ThingsTransactionsMost AmazingNounsVernacularArticulating Author:Simon Sinek
“Canada has always been ready for the truth. I think they actually appreciate a politician or anybody as a leader who tells the truth.” ThinkingLeaderReadyPoliticianAppreciateCanadaTelling The Truth Author:Kevin O'Leary
“I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for it - is to focus on technical reform, because I speak the language of technology. I spoke with Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the World Wide Web. We agree on the necessity for this generation to create what he calls the Magna Carta for the Internet. We want to say what "digital rights" should be. What values should we be protecting, and how do we assert them.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantShouldGuyValuesSpeakLanguageTechnologyFocusRightsGenerationsInternetPoliticianAgreeWideReformDigitalSpokesThis GenerationWorld Wide WebMagna Carta Author:Edward Snowden
“I think people are more in contact now with the consequences of war than they've been for a very long time. And that's what amazes me when sometimes politicians seem to forget their history. They don't look and re-learn about what has happened before. Maybe they haven't got the memory, maybe they're already too young, but you can see how we become puffed up, and how we as a nation rise so quickly if we're not careful.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksLongWarSometimesSeemsYoungNationsMemoriesForgetHappenedHavensPoliticianLong TimeConsequenceCarefulContact Author:Michael Morpurgo
“I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.” ThinkingTryingPersonsHardPoliticianTreated Author:Baran Odar
“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” ThinkingHumansScienceHouseWhiteKnowledgeTalentPoliticianExtraordinaryLibertarianPresidentialCollectionsExceptionWhite HouseNobel PrizeHuman KnowledgeUs PresidentAchieve GreatnessNobel Prize WinnersThose Who Came Before Us Author:John F. Kennedy
“Policy changes like what you desire come from our politicians. So let them know what you think.” ThinkingKnowsDesirePolicyPolitician Author:Michelle Singletary
“Most of the world is fooling about, especially the people who think they control the world and the community. The presidents, the politicians, the military, etc., are all jerking about, acting as if they are Lord over their own domains. That's basically Problem One on the planet.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldProblemPresidentCommunityActingLordMilitaryPlanetsPoliticianEtcDomainActing As If Author:George Harrison
“I just think the more the media uses their time-honored blueprint techniques to destroy Republican politicians... It hasn't worked on Trump yet, and they've been trying it a year and a half, folks. We're dangerously close here to the definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result." It's not Trump who's insane. Trump's having the time of his life.” ThinkingTryingYearsDifferentUseResultsHalfMediaTrumpPoliticianRepublicanFolksDefinitionsTechniqueInsaneInsanityExpectingHonoredBlueprintsDefinition Of Insanity Author:Rush Limbaugh
“69 percent of the people want our politicians to work together. And I think this should be a message to Democrats and Republicans to work together. And this is why people are very upset about Washington today.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldTodayTogetherPoliticianRepublicanMessagesPercentDemocratUpsetWorking Together Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I think that President Trump found it - which is what America, what all of us, were starving for the whole time because we're so sick of politics and politicians.” ThinkingWholeAmericaFoundPresidentTrumpPoliticianSickStarvingSo Sick Author:Reince Priebus
“I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.” ThinkingWayI CanHatePoliticianMalesLove And Hate Author:Hilary Mantel
“I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your fellow countrymen and they're the ones you live with - that should be who we target for education and enlightenment.” PeopleThinkingShouldAudiencePoliticianEnlightenmentFellowsTargetCountrymen Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The average politician speaks out of both sides of their mouth. No matter if it's Canada or the United States. And it's all three levels of government here and all parties. They act one way in front of the people and they think people are stupid and they can blow smoke where the sun doesn't shine for these people. And people don't buy it anymore.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayMatterStatesGovernmentThreeSpeakSidesLevelsUnitedPartyUnited StatesSunFrontsStupidPoliticianMouthsShiningAverageBlowOne WaySmokeCanadaBoth SidesSpeaks Out Author:Doug Ford, Jr.
“The way the left is reacting to the death of Fidel Castro up against the incontrovertible facts of who he was, you want to talk about a disconnect. In fact, I don't think it is a disconnect. I think the left, the power brokers, the leaders, I think they actually did admire the guy. I think this is what they think Castro's power - I've always said, the people have asked me, how do these actors and people and these leftist politicians, how come they admire people like this? I said, "They envy their power." And I think there may be a lot to that.” PeopleThinkingWayWantMaySaidFactsGuyActorsLeftLeaderPoliticianEnvyAdmireReactingLeftistsCastroBrokers Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump is the most outspoken, transparent, here's what I want to do, here's what I think we should do. There's no mystery here. But since other politicians aren't that transparent, since they don't act that up front, they just can't accept that anybody would. So they're forever gonna be confused.” ThinkingWantShouldAcceptingForeverMysteryFrontsTrumpPoliticianConfusedTransparentOutspoken Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People should really think about when they see President Donald Trump, they should think about all the places that he was and could be. All the things he could be doing. The political motivators for many typical politicians of which he's not one, Mercy, money, power, prestige, fame, he had all of that.” PeopleThinkingShouldPoliticalPresidentTrumpPoliticianFameMercyTypicalPrestigeMoney Power Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't mean any harm to people of color - this idea that we're beyond all that (so it must be something else) makes it difficult for young people as well as the grown-ups to be able to see clearly and honestly the truth of what's going on. It makes it difficult to see that the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement manifested itself in the form of mass incarceration, in the form of defunding and devaluing schools serving kids of color and all the rest.” PeopleThinkingWellsMeanIdeasKidsAbleSchoolFormYoungCoursesDifficultRaceRightsMovementColorPoliticianMassPoliceHarmHonestlyMythologyCivil RightsRacistServingOfficersCivil Rights MovementPolice OfficerIncarcerationBacklashMass Incarceration Author:Michelle Alexander
“Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMightArtistPoliticianDelegates Author:Mohsin Hamid
“All politicians are going to mask to some degree in order to present themselves in away they think will get them votes. What's different in Obama's case is that he's wearing a racial mask, this 'bargainer's' mask, and I think very effectively, whereby he gives whites the benefit of the doubt. He's essentially saying, 'I am going to presume you are not racist, if you won't hold my race against me.' So, his mask is a distinctly racial one.” IfsThinkingGivingDifferentOrderRaceCasesDoubtPoliticianDegreesBenefitsVoteMaskRacistBenefit Of The Doubt Author:Shelby Steele
“It's going to have to come to a point where politicians in their own political self-interest think it's safe and advantageous to come out on the side of drug law reform. Right now, they don't care about drug safety. They just care about their standing with the electorate.” ThinkingSelfCareLawPoliticalSidesInterestPoliticianRight NowDrugSafeStandingSafetyDon't CareReformSelf InterestElectorateDrug Laws Author:Rick Steves
“I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and the incentives to bring change? The banks and other corporations love the system because it allows them to buy legislation that serves their own interests even at the expense of the vast majority of citizens. Incumbent politicians love the system because it allows them to raise millions of dollars toward defending their seats.” ThinkingReasonInterestMillionsFailingCitizensPoliticianCapacityRaisesMajorityDollarsCorporationsSeatsExpensesLegislationIncentivesIncumbents Author:Thomas Pogge
“I think it's interesting that a lot of times people want celebrities to give back in the way that they want them to give back. They want them to give money to the cause they think is important and when that doesn't happen they say, "Oh, they're not doing anything." People think celebrities are going to solve their problems. People think because someone is famous or an athlete or a politician that the solution begins with them. All they're there to do is sell you a product.” PeopleThinkingWayWantGivingImportantProblemHappensCausesInterestingProductsPoliticianSolutionsSellsAthleteSolveGiving Back Author:Rhymefest