America’s been ruined by one word: Bankers. No, two words: Bankers and lawyers. Make that three words. Add politicians to that list. Oh, and don’t forget the lobbyists.

The raindrops gathered on my windshield like prostitutes at a political convention, and I voted like I always vote—with my windshield wiper.

The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory output.’ What? Oh. Well– ‘I continued to lecture a bit more, to disguise the fact that I was getting...

Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

He’s an honest politician–he stays bought.

We also have to consider the many different kinds of rape we have learned about over the past few years as conservative politicians blunder through trying to explain their stances on sexual violence and abortion....

You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it’s only in troublous times...

As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy withwhich we all begin as children, that the institutions under which we live,including our legal ways of distributing income and...

I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.

The ability to gauge intelligence is itself a form of intelligence. Monkeys don’t ponder how smart monkeys are. Ditto for politicians.

People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians. Statesmen are leaders who uphold what is right regardless of the...

Il peut arriver des situations (dans les régimes dictatoriaux, par exemple) où prendre publiquement position est dangereux ; pour le danseur ce l’est pourtant un peu moins que pour les autres, car, s’étant promené sous...

A politician is a politician whether he’s wearing a suit or a funny hat.

Don’t think I know you,” Harold said, grinning, as they shook. He had a firm grip. Larry’s hand was pumped up and down exactly three times and let go. It reminded Larry of the time...

Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.

El político puede pagarle al intelectual. Pero no puede confiar en él. El intelectual acabará por disentir y para el político esta será siempre una traición. Malicioso o ingenuo, maquiavélico o utópico, el poderoso siempre...

Democracy today, especially in the English-speaking world, is a political system that specialises in positioning inadequate, unqualified and dubious types in leadership positions.

Politicians are like warts on the body of society. And the only thing worse than warts are lawyers and lobbyists.

I had a dream about you. We met where most lovers meet—in prison. You were a guard, and I was in solitary confinement. The politicians felt the bars protected society from me, but I felt...

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Perhaps when a nation goes through a period of upheaval, those who should become politicians, do.

To see the farm is to leave it.

It just amazes me that we have politicians who are unwilling to secure the border.

When people tire of a politician, it’s very difficult to get back. This will make for four flat tires on his Hummer come Nov. 8. So far, the other three propositions have been more damaged...

In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep a mistress and a few girlfriends on the side. Only in America, still...

A tongue, if used the wrong way, can cause serious injury or even death. Politicians are famous for misusing their tongues this way. However, tongues can also be cleansing agents, making the most of a...

There’s always going to be a criminal element in the population. At least as long as people believe they need politicians.

Politics has really turned a lot of decent men into heartless beings.

They are politicians?

This is the first time that I have heard politicians say they are worried about the outbreak of civil war.

He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened...

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred...

[John Edwards] is the man that Rielle Hunter called ‘real and authentic,’ which tells us all we need to know about her mental abilities. This is why she can’t figure out why he picked her....

There are pockets of wealth in this country. Mostly those pockets are in the politicians’ pants.

She’s beautiful, but she’s also got brains. I’ll bet zombies would love to eat out of her skull like a bowl of Jell-O that had an IQ of 180—which is absurd, because the last bowl...

In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil...

pour occuper la scène il faut en repousser les autres. Ce qui suppose une technique de combat spéciale. le combat que mène le danseur, Pontevin l’appelle le judo moral ; le danseur jette le gant...

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

God, you don’t just barge in on my father, and definitely not my mother.”No way. You check with their personal secretaries first. Check out their moods. Then you make an appointment to slip in. There...

Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

He is a liar, a thief, a killer and a cannibal. And he is running for political office! Someone must stop him.

It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!

I don’t know, from other people’s pockets?

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....

Ethics”, and I said, Sure, I might enjoy a bit of stand-up comedy.

Apenas discerni que repetir o que toda a gente pensava não era em política um sinal de inferioridade, mas de superioridade.

Having two non-functional parties is not a democracy, it’s a losing coin flip.

The politicians looked after the mandarins. The mandarins looked after the central bankers and the regulators. (The governor of the Central Bank was paid more in 2008 than the chairman of the US Federal Reserve,...

The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.