Politician Quotes - Page 36

• Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

  Richard Cobden

  Liberty, Looks, Libertarian

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• What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now know that an adult mammalian cell can fire up all the dormant genetic instructions that shut down as it divides and specializes and ages, and thus can become a source of new life. You can outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology.
  Writing after Wilmut's successful cloning of the sheep, Dolly, that research on the cloning of human beings cannot be suppressed.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Life, Writing, Science

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• Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.

  Martin Gardner

  Real, Science, Self

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• One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Pain, Future, Science

  "The Making of Kubrick's 2001". Book by Jerome Agel, 1970.

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• When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

  Walter Lippmann

  Trying, Philosopher, Cease

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Fighting, Catholic Religion

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.

  Bill Moyers

  Couple, Reality, Religion

  "On Bush, the Dems, Jon Stewart, Hunter Thompson, Bill Moyers, and King (not Don)" by John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2005.

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• Elections are a kind of business. I have to present myself: 'I can do this and that for this area so please give me your vote'. People vote for the politicians who can best understand and contribute to their region or country. In a business you can choose your clients, and the message is targeted to them only. But politics is universal; no matter what age the audience, you have to send the same message to everyone.

  Takafumi Horie

  Country, Business, People

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• It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.

  Takafumi Horie

  Business, Thinking, Japan

  "Takafumi Horie Talkasia Transcript". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.

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• Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

  Charles Koch

  Business, Agency, Government

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• There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Two, Honest

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• In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.

  John Hume

  Fashion, Class, House

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• Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

  L. Neil Smith

  Gun, Muggers, Never Forget

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• At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.

  Clarence H. Burns

  Dream, Reality, Politics

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• A newborn has more skills than does a politician. The infant babbles, burbles, cuddles, coos; the politician just babbles.

  Derek Cooper

  Skills, Doe, Politics

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• The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

  Maurice Barres

  Opposites, Political, Balance

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• Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Evil

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• The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Art, Political, Vices

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• Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

  Bob Beckel

  Rabbits, Asking, Vote

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• Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

  Kit Harington

  Games, People, Profession

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

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• He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester.

  Woody Allen

  Children, Political, Politics

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as there were when I started making television. How can the Earth accommodate them? When people, including politicians, set their faces against looking at the consequences-it's just unbelievable that anyone could ignore it.

  David Attenborough

  Mean, Science, People

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