Political Quotes - Page 36

• You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.

  Walter E. Williams

  Ignorance, Hands, Evil

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• Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

  Harry Browne

  Would Be, Politician, Illiterate

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• Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no common sense, and most never acknowledge that they were wrong.

  Lawrence Kudlow

  Real, Common Sense, World

  "Barney Frank Comes Home to the Facts". Article by Larry Kudlow, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 21, 2010.

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• Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

  Molly Ivins

  Real, Stupid, Policy

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• The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

  John Stossel

  People, Shut Up, Politician

  "I Got Elected. You May Not Criticize Me" by John Stossel, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 2, 2005.

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• It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Reality, People

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• One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.

  John Fund

  Dog, Blue, House

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• No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

  Neal Boortz

  School, Thinking, Government

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• People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Winning, People, Matter

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• The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.

  James P. Hogan

  Cheating, Opposites, Skills

  James P. Hogan (1983). “Code of the Lifemaker”, Del Rey

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• The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.

  Cal Thomas

  Art, Reading, Government

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• It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools.

  Stephen D. Cox

  Dope, Class, Crooks

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• Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

  David Harsanyi

  Mysterious, Turns, Wells

  "The Libertarian Case for Palin" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2008.

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• Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

  Barney Frank

  School, Congress, Shots

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• This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

  Jeff Flake

  Adults, Needs, Desperate

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• Politicians are leeches, mostly.

  Tibor R. Machan

  Politician

  "Why Honor Politicians?". mises.org. February 24, 2004.

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• The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

  Harry Browne

  Problem

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• The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

  Mike Cloud

  Abuse, Problem, Abuse Of Power

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• Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

  Harry Browne

  Giving, Today, Politician

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• Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Telling The Truth, Politician

  "Civilization Envy" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. September 28, 2001.

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• [In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Deeds, Good Deeds

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• No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.

  Harry Browne

  Believe, Marijuana, People

  "Liberty A to Z". p. 55. Book by Harry Browne, 2004.

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• Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

  Harry Browne

  Believe, Winning, Office

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• For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy, entrusting government with power that we would never entrust to our neighbors or other private citizens might seem sensible. To me, it's dangerous, unjustified, and unjustifiable.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Government, Office, Important

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• We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.

  Gerald Warner

  Past, Opportunity, Jail

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