Politician Quotes - Page 22

• No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.

  Michele Bachmann

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• I think it's a good thing that we can have relatively non-partisan political conversations because I don't think that my premier necessarily should agree with everything the federal NDP says. I don't think she should disagree with everything the federal Conservatives say. I think that Albertans and Canadians as a whole, as I always say, are looking for pragmatic politicians with pragmatic solutions to their problems, and they want the best ideas to move forward, regardless of who has that idea.

  Naheed Nenshi

  Moving, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Injustice drives me crazy! It really upsets me when I see politicians lying.

  Trevor Paglen

  Lying, Crazy, Upset

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left their education. And in the old days of course politicians used to be fish mongers or doctors or whatever. They'd lived life. These days, power seems to go to the hands of people that that's all they've done. And I'm not sure that's a good thing, because it does remove them from the realities of life.

  Jeremy Irons

  Reality, People, Done

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.

  Ernie Chambers

  Beautiful, Country, Inspiration

  "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.

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• I often quote Hitler, who said words to the effect of, "Rulers are fortunate that the people do not think." Politicians know this. Even when the public seems to be upset, the politicians know if they can put on a brave face and ride it out, they generally will.

  Ernie Chambers

  Thinking, People, Brave

  "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.

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• If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  People, Immigration, Republican

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• Alexei Navalny, the opposition politician who has led anti-corruption protests, had a blog about a credit line to a company owned by Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, $1.75 billion from Russian state funds; this is one transaction. Putin controls more money directly and indirectly than any individual in human history.

  Garry Kasparov

  Individual, Protest, Fund

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and it doesn't trickle down unless all of society understands that we must support the arts, whether it's ballet, opera, fashion. Fashion is like opera, is like ballet, is like theatre. It's a visual theatre.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fashion, Art, Support

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb Syria, he drew our attention to the victims of chemical warfare. And in both of the Iraq wars, politicians said, "Look at the horrific things that are happening." I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

  Paul Bloom

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• This is the only free country in the world that's doing lobbying. Voters should be the lobbyists. If we can spend all of this time with all these different celebrities who fill up the internet and magazines then we should be able to keep an eye on politicians because they might cost you your job and your home and your life savings.

  Rosario Dawson

  Country, Home, Eye

  "Rosario Dawson Acts Up". Interview With Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2011.

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• When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

  Dan Graham

  Audience

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• I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy. But I'm not concerned with politicians and what they think. And I'm not always going to succeed. I'll have missteps, but I hope that people will be patient with the show and us and know that our intentions are good.

  Lena Waithe

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the passing comforts it bestows - we will certainly attain it. One hopes and prays it doesn't take an historic crisis for us to demand and reward excellence in public service.

  James M Strock

  Excellence, Comfort, Mediocrity

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• Ronald Reagan was unusual in being an authentic personality. Unlike many professional actors - and politicians - he was much the same behind the curtain as in front.

  James M Strock

  Personality, Unusual

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• Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one part of the total tax system. There are sales taxes, Medicare taxes, social security taxes, unemployment taxes, gasoline taxes, excise taxes - and when you add up all of those taxes [many of which are quite regressive], and then you look at how they affect the rich and the poor, you essentially end up with a system in which the best off 20 percent of Americans pay one percentage point more of their income than the worst off 20 percent of Americans.

  David Cay Johnston

  Rich, Poor, Taxes

  "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.

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• Politicians step up and say, "This is what were going to do: we're going to set aside 450 million dollars for a mentorship program for orphaned youth," and so on and so forth, and it sounds great in this romanticized vision of what these alleged leaders are going to do for the alleged meek. But it doesn't examine: why are these kids orphans?

  Mr. Lif

  Kids, Leader, Vision

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• Certainly Tunisia was the first in Muslim world. It's been like that for a long time and women play an important part in Tunisia. There are women in all professions. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, politicians, journalists and so on.

  Bernard Lewis

  Long, Important, World

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• I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

  Stephen Ambrose

  World, Study, Lifetime

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• Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

  Ian Anderson

  Promise, Challenging The Status Quo, May

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• Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

  Maya Angelou

  Independent, Mud, Republican

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.56, Random House

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• All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

  John Arbuthnot

  Lying, Party, Political

  "Life of Emerson" by Richard Garnett, ch. 7, 1988.

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• Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

  Aristotle

  Life, Political, Politics

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• Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.

  Michele Bachmann

  Titles

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• A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Politics, Opinion

  'Biographical Studies' (1881) 'The Character of Sir Robert Peel'

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