Bad Politics Quotes

• Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

  George Jean Nathan

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Political

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• Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

  Richard Armour

  Years, Long, Greed

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• Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.

  Ai Weiwei

  Air, People, Water

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• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Ninety Nine, Giving, Political

  "The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, 1984.

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• Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Veterans Day, Military

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Tuberculosis, Cures

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election.

  Narendra Modi

  Reality, Government, Mind

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  Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

  George Burns

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

  Quoted in Life, Dec. 1979

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• I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.

  Aaron Levie

  Thinking, People, Important

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• Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission — that's not bad politics, that's robbery.

  Paul Newman

  Needs, Weapons, Building

  "Working for New Priorities". Interview with Anita Merina, NEA Today, February 2000.

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• In Marxism there are some very unhelpful ideas about the need to push for a revolution that will overturn all of society. Marx gets that from Hegel, and it leads to some very bad politics, such as the hope that things must get worse because that will then turn into the antithesis and get better from there. A kind of wishful thinking then grows out of not seeing a realistic path forward.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Thinking, Ideas, Get Better

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

  Jeff Ament

  Ukulele, Causes, Figuring It

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• [Elijah Cummings] probably was told by [Chuck] Schumer or somebody like that some some other light weight, he was probably told - he was probably told, don't meet with Trump. It's bad politics. And that's part of the problem in this country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Light, Weight

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change.

  Celestine Sibley

  Writing, People, Causes

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