“I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians.” KnowsYearsBelieveI BelieveTrumpPoliticianDemocraticFunding Author:Ted Cruz
“Politics is more than policy, right. Like, one thing that has occurred to me is Bernie Sanders is clearly a very adept and able politician, right. But he spent 30 years being a very adept and able politician in an almost entirely white state.” YearsStatesAbleWhiteOne ThingPolicyPoliticianAdept Author:Chris Hayes
“What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off when people say Donald Trump is authentic. Just because he says "Mexican rapists." What about me? I am the real deal.” PeopleYearsLongRealRememberTurnsDealsFourTrumpPoliticianBoundsFour YearsAmerican HistoryRemember WhenMexicanWheelchairsTurn Me Author:Joe Biden
“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 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
“I would argue that there's been a backlash this year [2016]. They [the Kochs] pushed the [Republican] party too far right. The other thing that the backlash is against is the sense that politicians have been bought and sold.” YearsHas BeensPartyPoliticianRepublicanArguingRepublican PartyBacklash Author:Jane Mayer
“What we have done over the last 40 or 50 years is systematically attacked and weakened the parties, the political machines, the professionals, and insiders, and hacks, and all the tools that they use to get politicians to play well together. And with those gone, you get chaos.” YearsWellsDonePlayUseTogetherLastsPoliticalPartyGonePoliticianToolsMachinesChaosHacksInsiders Author:Jonathan Rauch
“Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks - once we came up with these key characters in a cloud of marijuana, the whole thing just came together. One of the things I'm really proud of is how much of a high-school yearbook it is in its look, so much so that Hunter Publishing had the art director, David Kaestle, and I come for years to their annual convention and do a little talk on how not to do a yearbook.” YearsLooksLittlesArtWholeCharacterKidsSchoolTogetherGirlBehindsClassKeysTypeProudPoliticianDirectorsHigh SchoolCloudsConventionsMarijuanaPublishingHuntersAnnualsTagJocksFrigidYearbookPopular GirlArt DirectorHigh School Yearbook Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good Human Material. That's what they wanted sent to Palestine for colonization and for the eventual conflict that took place some years later. These policies were somewhat complementary to the U.S. policy of pressuring England to allow Jews to go to Palestine, but not allowing them here. The British politician Ernest Bevin was quite bitter about it, asking, "if you want to save the Jews, why send them to Palestine when you don't admit them?"” IfsWantYearsHumansDoneWantedStudyPolicyMaterialsPoliticianConflictEnglandAskingJewBritishBitterTitlesAllowingScholarPalestineTranslationsIsraeliHebrewColonizationComplementary Author:Noam Chomsky
“One of the hardest things in politics is to convince people to do things now that will have a good effect 20 or 30 years from now because politicians tend to have a short-term view. They are more attentive to things that people care about today.” PeopleYearsCareTodayTermViewsEffectsPoliticianHardestConvinceHardest ThingShort Term Author:Barack Obama
“If you've worked together with somebody very well, leave-taking is very difficult. But we are all politicians. We all know that democracy lives off change. So, in the United States of America, the Constitution has very clear stipulations on this. It's a tough rule. Eight years and that's it, out goes the president and a new one comes in.” IfsKnowsYearsWellsStatesTogetherAmericaDifficultPresidentUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyClearPoliticianToughConstitutionEightUnited States Of AmericaStipulations Author:Angela Merkel
“The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop a nomination almost a year before the next election and really not pay a political price for it, that's a sign that the incentives for politicians in this town to be so sharply partisan have gotten so outta hand that we're weakening ourselves.” YearsMeanFactsHandsAblePoliticalNextPayLeaderExamplePoliticianRepublicanTownsElectionCourtSupremeSupreme CourtIncentivesPartisansNominationsWeakening Author:Barack Obama
“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
“Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.” MenWayTryingYearsWellsMadeStillsSelfStatesSeemsGovernmentPoliticalCultureRaceMoralCareersIssuesHonestFiguresHeroPoliticianEssentialsElementsHundredRaisesFiftyOur SocietyAmerican HistoryFederal GovernmentFrontiersAmerican CultureIconicAmerican LifeSelf MadeAbeSelf Made Man Author:Eric Foner
“Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.” YearsWellsHas BeensDealsTeacherTeachingPoliticianProfessionTreatedBeing TrueContemptMediocrityRhetoricRecklessDemoralizedTeaching Profession Author:Jonathan Kozol
“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
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” LifeInspirationalYearsEndsHumorMotivationalAgeDeathPositiveHealthPoliticianSuicideAgingParentingLifestyleOptimisticEnthusiasmThis LifeLive LifePresidentialBirthdayLive ByFuneralLive Your LifeCountingQuality Of LifeCriminal MindShort LifeRehabEnd Of LifeRehabilitationTime Of My LifeHappy BirthdayInspirational BirthdayEnjoy YourselfStaying YoungLive Life To Its FullestWise BirthdayInspirational AgeYears Of LifeLife Is Not Worth LivingYou Only Live OnceInspirational DreamJust Live Your LifeBirthday WishesTime Of Your LifeQuotations Birthday Happy BirthdayEnjoy Your LifeYoung BirthdayBirthday CardLife MotivationCancer CourageWitty BirthdayFunny Birthday WishesCelebrate BirthdayBirthday Wishes FunnyBirthday GreetingsAwesome BirthdayBeing Yourself And HappyLive Love LifeBest Years Of Your LifeHappy Birthday InspirationalMy Time Will ComeRetirement Years Author:Abraham Lincoln
“It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.” YearsEyePartyKnownFocusFeetPoliticianPaperYears AgoShoesConservativeNewspapersPairsPrintHeelsPapersConferencesKittenLeopardsConservative PartyLeopard Print Author:Theresa May
“When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.” YearsMayGovernmentActionChoicesThreePoliticianTaxesBenefitsRaisesAveragePrintFederal GovernmentRevenue Author:Ron Paul
“President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.” YearsKindPresidentEconomyIssuesRecordsFourPoliticianPromiseBarackPresident ObamaFour YearsPresidency Author:Paul Ryan
“You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.” GivingYearsGamesWinningModernPoliticianFinancialHearingStealingRegulationAttendingFilingFinancial Regulation Author:Matt Taibbi