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.

Kujenga urafiki na wanasiasa wakati mwingine ni kitu kizuri. Wanasaidia kurahisisha mambo.

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

America’s problem, in a word, is politicians. In two words, it’s politicians and lobbyists. In three words, it’s politicians, lobbyists, and lawyers. And finally, in four words, it’s politicians, lobbyists, lawyers, and bankers.

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself – (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the power of government. All they want is to keep stealing. If you can...

…we have seen that the priests regard the state as an enemy to be exploited, it is only natural that our politicians do likewise. Thus, although patriotism is held in greater esteem in this country...

I wish politicians the world over would stop claiming credit for economic growth that happens despite them, not because of them. Grow up…

Politicians obfuscate. It gets them re-elected. If no-one can understand what is going on, then the perception is that we need someone to guide us through the fog. Many people want to be led. A...

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more...

… we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always. There was no way they could not fail us –...

…her gaze settling on Bush International Airport. What is it with politicians anyway, always rushing to put their name on everything? She couldn’t think of a single politician who deserved his name on a sewage...

I Voted” sticker on it, so perhaps it’s as disgusted with politics as politicians are disgusting.

there can be no failure to a human who has not lost his courage, unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, human does not lose his being in...

Si un danseur a la possibilité d’entrer dans le jeu politique, il refusera ostensiblement toutes les négociations secrètes (qui sont depuis toujours le terrain de jeu de la vraie politique) en les dénonçant comme mensongères,...

Let us hope that Lysenko’s success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another reminder to the world of how quickly and easily a science can be corrupted when ignorant political leaders...

The two-handed type is also wrong. This one is fine for ministers or politicians, but too intimate for a job interview.

Normally, anything done in the name of ‘the kids’ strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for...

The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!

Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, I think everybody can agree that politicians are crooks. But I don’t think politicians are thieves, because you can’t steal what you’ve been given. Once we stop giving...

The love between a man and an animal is a sacred thing. Well, at least it was, until the politicians started answering to the lobbyists and not the people.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Money is a servant to politicians and the country.But, if the politicians and the country become the servant of the money, the politicians has failed.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

How is it that we can punish women who are paid by politicians yet allow freedom and forgiveness to the politicians who pay them? The irony of the situation is that if we allow Sptizer’s...

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