“(Walls) show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbor. ... They can't think what else to do.” ThinkingIdeasEndsShowsDifficultSituationWallPoliticianNeighborDifficult Situations Author:Frederick Winslow Taylor
“We need to know the facts, in order to tell the politicians, "Excuse me, I don't want you to use my money on building a wall that is not going to solve any problems. We have to go this direction instead."” KnowsWantNeedsFactsUseProblemOrderBuildingWallPoliticianExcuseSolveExcuse MeUsing Me Author:Demian Bichir
“A good leader does not tell people to stand behind him. That position does not give anybody power but the leader. Today's politician isn't going to be the first marching to war, so why put that guy in front? Instead, a good leader tells people to stand beside him. That creates an invincible wall of people, and that's a force where everybody stands as a true equal.” PeopleGivingFirstsDoeWarTodayGuyForceBehindsLeaderFrontsPositionWallPoliticianEqualThat GuyInvincibleGood Leader Author:Suzy Kassem
“As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall Street. It's the growing federal debt (and weakening dollar) being enacted by those Washington politicians - the ones who want to protect us from Wall Street.” WantHas BeensEconomyGrowingRiskStreetsWallPoliticianProtectRemainsDollarsDebtFinanceWeakening Author:Tony Blankley
“A stand in is a politician who can deliver her constituency to her Wall Street backers. That's what a politician does in America. You get a constituency; you make them believe your promises, and then you turn them over to your financial campaign backers. That's what politics has become and that's as much an art of deception as economics is.” BelieveArtWallPoliticianPromiseFinancialDeception Author:Michael Hudson
“Trump's not showing up and trying to politely insert himself in political system and the way politicians do things. He's not trying to ingratiate himself. He doesn't care. He's elected to do specific things. His campaign, his agenda, his rallies, a very long list of specific things, and he reminded everybody, if you're thinking he's not gonna build a wall, if you're thinking that was just chatter, I'd change my mind if I were you.” ThinkingTryingMindLongCarePoliticalWallPoliticianInsert Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You can't go home and look at your plaques at the end of the day, because every politician has like a million plaques on their wall. OK? You don't go home and look at - you don't get anything for that. And you can't go home and say, boy, I really served the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. You want to go home and, you know, Fourth of July, you know, any of these special holidays that recognize our country, you want to feel like you've built a stronger nation, which means you helped build the people and put them in a stronger place where everyone's lifted.” PeopleMeanCountryHomePartyBoysSpecialLike YouWallPoliticianRepublicanStrongerDemocraticHolidayRepublican PartyDemocratic Party Author:John Kasich
“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.” YearsTwoCountryCharacterAmericaPoliticalPoliticsLostTrustWallIndustryPoliticianWittyTwo YearsDistrustAmerican PoliticsAssassinationPuzzledLove And TrustElection YearsElected LeadersCharacter AssassinationLost Trust Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.” Has BeensUnitedCasesShareStreetsWallCitizensPoliticianTaxesFairsCourtSupremeCrashSupreme CourtArrestedFair ShareCitizens United Author:Michael Moore
“It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.” PeopleMeanBigsGuyStreetsWallPoliticianClueBerlinSpecialistsBerlin WallBig Guys Author:Luc Besson