Politician Quotes - Page 29

• In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

  Mark Duffy

  Football, Gambling, Games

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• It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

  Anthony Trollope

  Honesty, Men, Political

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• In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success.

  Walter E. Williams

  Faithful, Ignorant, Liberty

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• One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Business, Keys

  "Less Than Artful Choices: Narcissistic Personality Disorder According to Donald Trump" by Maria Konnikova, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mean, People, Office

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson On Literacy, Curiosity, Education, And Being 'In Your Face'". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. February 25, 2010.

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• I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

  Jesse Ventura

  Believe, Careers, Telling The Truth

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• The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.

  Jesse Ventura

  Lying, Voice, Giving

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• Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America.

  Tom L. Johnson

  School, Government, America

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• The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

  Lech Walesa

  War, Nuclear, Way

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• I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.

  Scott Walker

  Hate, Thinking, Office

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• I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

  George C. Wallace

  Political, Legs, Politics

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• I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

  Horace Walpole

  Political, Politics, Way

  Horace Walpole, John Wright (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.313

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• Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

  Mao Zedong

  Blood, Political, Politics

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.135, China Books

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• There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

  Robert Peel

  Political, Politics, Facts

  Sir Robert Peel, George Peel (Hon.), Charles Stuart Parker (1899). “Sir Robert Peel: From his private papers”

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• The more successful a political party, the more winning its ways, the less of its time is spent casting about for policy or determining it principles. But, political parties with principles or even without them, have a common need for money; someone has to pay for the television commercials.

  Dalton Camp

  Party, Successful, Winning

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• Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.

  Erich Fromm

  Tyrants, Political, Feelings

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.135, Open Road Media

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• Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

  John F. Kennedy

  Determination, Mean, Self

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Jobs, Fate, Politics

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• In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Kids, Air

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Thinking, People

  "Britain Prepares to Withdraw Troops From Iraq". “The Situarion Room” with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2007.

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• A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Air, Feet

  Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

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• The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

  Herbert Spencer

  Politics, Social, Structure

  Herbert Spencer (1894). “The Man Versus the State: Containing "The New Toryism," "The Coming Slavery," "The Sins of Legislators" and "The Great Political Superstition”

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• A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

  Peter De Vries

  Men, Politics, Fewer

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• The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

  Tommy Douglas

  Government, Should Have, Political

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• When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

  John A. Macdonald

  Opportunity, Men, Evil

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