“Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue.” BelieveArtistRealizingOpinionIssuesTheoryPoliticianConcernWestConservativeCampaignsNewspapersRussiaConspiracyPublic OpinionPutinAdviserConspiracy TheoryMalicious Author:Alexei Navalny
“Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory, the public are less concerned by whether or not they are effectively represented than by the need to be assured that the penises and vaginas of public officials are only used in legally sanctioned circumstances.” NeedsUsedExistenceTheoryPoliticianFitCircumstancesOfficeConcernedOfficialsAssuredMaintenancePublic OfficeHappy FamilyPublic Officials Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.” PeopleThinkingPositionTheoryPoliticianCrapCool People Author:Eddie Izzard
“Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor.” WayImportantPoliticalInterestPolicyTheoryPoliticianOffersConflictApproachHarderCrisisDemocraticDiscussionFrankParadesPolitical SystemsVigorNational Interests Author:David B. Rivkin
“Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things.” PeopleMindGovernmentForceChurchRolesTheoryPoliticianOrdinaryImpressedOrdinary PeopleNot Impressed Author:Allan Boesak
“Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round. Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John Glenn. He orbited the earth when he was an astronaut. Dogbert: So, your theory depends on the honesty of politicians. Dilbert: Yes... no, wait.” LooksEarthScienceAsksWaitingHonestyTheoryDependsPoliticianEvidenceRoundsSenatorsAstronautColumbusDilbert Author:Scott Adams
“Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.” PeopleYearsStillsPoliticalPoorPovertyMillionsDemocracyNew YorkProduceTheoryPoliticianEasierBenefitsProgramVoteFavorsAriseRangeTargetBroadsConspiracyPoor PeoplePolitical SystemsConspiracy TheoryMaoStock ExchangeNew York StockNew York Stock Exchange Book:Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics
“Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.” WantBigsGovernmentPerfectTheoryPoliticianClimateClimate ChangeBig Government Author:Ted Cruz
“We have to work sincerely and responsibly to thwart any attempt to divide the Arab nation into small groups, with which foreign countries would deal separately. This would eventually be in the interests of Zionism, which stands behind such policies, formulating the relevant theories and promoting distorted information to world politicians, especially in the West, in order to make them adopt an approach which is harmful to the Arab nation and is even against the legitimate interests of their own countries.” WorldCountryOrderNationsInterestDealsBehindsGroupsInformationPolicyTheoryPoliticianApproachWestDividesRelevantPromotingSincerelySmall GroupsZionismForeign Countries Author:Saddam Hussein
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” PeopleKnowsWantHardPoliticsFreedomCommonDemocracyTheoryPoliticianDeserveDemocracies HaveVoting And Democracy Author:H. L. Mencken