Politician Quotes - Page 34

• I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Grief, College, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• The other three incoming calls were from his building superintendent, his pharmacy and a telephone survey company." "Bastards. They always call during dinner." Liv laughed as I slid the sliced steak onto a platter and topped it with sautéed vegetables. "Forget crime lords and corrupt politicians - telemarketers are the root of all evil." "Now you're getting it.

  Rachel Vincent

  Vegetables, Roots, Evil

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• We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Soul, Knows, Bad Things

  MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.130, Penguin

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• Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

  James Clavell

  War, Teenager, People

  Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio, 1986.

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• I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Father, Law, Wife

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• Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Reflection, Views, Europe

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• So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.

  John Green

  Couple, Team, Missing

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.107, Penguin

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• Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

  Patrick Ness

  Believe, Never Trust, Fixed

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• In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hurt, Names, Care

  "David Foster Wallace on John McCain: 'The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub'" by David Foster Wallace, www.rollingstone.com. April 13, 2000.

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• I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lite, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed.

  Howard Zinn

  Jobs, Father, Hard Work

  "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times". Book by Howard Zinn, 1994.

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• Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

  Tim O'Brien

  Warning, Cigarette, Packs

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• But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

  Anthony Horowitz

  School, People, Bullied

  Anthony Horowitz (2004). “Skeleton Key”, p.161, Penguin

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• It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a very old-fashioned view held by people totally out of touch with modern thought. The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Butterfly, Views, Europe

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.

  Brad Thor

  Men, Ego, Demand

  Brad Thor (2012). “Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

  John le Carre

  Hands, Design, Misery

  John le Carre (2002). “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

  Adolf Hitler

  Suits, Should, Bathing

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• Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.

  George Packer

  War, Party, Independent

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• Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

  Saul Alinsky

  Issues, Hot, Action

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• A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

  Gregory David Roberts

  Bridges, Water, Promise

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• The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Evil, Liberty, Libertarian

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.27, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as the verbal abuser against those who deviate from nodding their heads at the vast statues of evil that we inherited.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Gun, Media, People

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• You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.

  Robert Fulghum

  Lying, Doctors, News

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• Never give a good politician time to pray.

  Stephen King

  Giving, Praying, Good Politicians

  Stephen King (2014). “Under the Dome: Part 2: A Novel”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.

  Pascal Mercier

  Honesty, Temptation, Guilt

  Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.366, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

  Kate Atkinson

  Baby, Born, Chosen

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