Political Quotes - Page 37

• I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

  Michael Crichton

  Smart, Ideas, Enough

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• Politicians detest self-sufficient citizens. Politicians need to be needed. When we get socialized medicine, you will be completely dependent upon politicians for your medical care, as Canadians are today. That's why if you need an MRI in Canada, you have to wait three months - unless you pay certain kinds of homage to the right politicians.

  Neal Boortz

  Self, Medicine, Waiting

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• A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great career for those who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Careers, People, Public Service

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

  John P. Wheeler III

  Nouns, Scum, Lists

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• There is no company - no corporation on earth that engages in accounting fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United Sates does. Not many congressmen are willing to come forward with the details.

  Neal Boortz

  Government, Details, Doe

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• Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

  Neal Boortz

  Believe, People, Liberty

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• The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

  Neal Boortz

  Government, Goal, Use

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• There is no limit to the hunger politicians have for the money you've worked so hard for. ... You can tell them to take a hike, but then the guns come out.

  Neal Boortz

  Gun, Limits, Hunger

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• Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

  H. L. Mencken

  Honest, Politician, Ethical

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• I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Giving, Doe

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• There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

  Neal Boortz

  People, Brain, Facts

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• Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Exhausted, Politician, Right Thing

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• I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

  Tony Blankley

  Insanity, Minorities, Sometimes

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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Colin Campbell says that every member of the Georgia General Assembly with an IQ above 85 should be required to wear a crash helmet. That should take about ... oh, say 15 helmets?

  Neal Boortz

  Atlanta, Georgia, Constitution

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• In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

  Ze'ev Chafets

  Fishing, Genius, Fishes

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• Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

  Richard L. Gordon

  Firsts, Blame, Problem

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• For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics. ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me.

  Anthony Gregory

  Country, Religious, Believe

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• Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.

  Edwin A. Locke

  Islamic, Western Culture, May

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• If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope and believe that you would think I was a servile jerk. Yet this is what our politicians are doing in every speech.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Thinking, Asking

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• Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!

  Neal Boortz

  Politician

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• If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

  Milton Friedman

  Jobs, Income, Want

  "The Best of Both Worlds". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. June 1995.

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• No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except for two: that it's not moral or that it's not Constitutional.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Two, Bills

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• Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

  Thomas Sowell

  People

  "Random Thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, www.creators.com. August 19, 2014.

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• Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the risk of default. ... The idea that politicians can assess risks better than people who have spent their whole careers assessing risks should have been so obviously absurd that no one would take it seriously.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Should Have, Careers

  "Bailout Politics" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 30, 2008.

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• I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

  Charlie Peacock

  Lying, Politics, Want

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