Politician Quotes - Page 39

• Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

  James Hansen

  Thinking, Law, Looks

  James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.6, A&C Black

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• Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not.

  David Bellamy

  Numbers, Worry, Vision

  "The Truth About Global Warming - It's the Sun That's to Blame" by Michael Leidig and Roya Nikkhah, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 18, 2004.

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• Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Voice, Political, Doubt

  "This man truly is a Santa Klaus". mises.org. February12, 2007.

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• The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is causing such hysteria, we have only a movie made by a politician and mathematical models whose results change drastically when you change a few of the arbitrarily selected variables.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hysteria, Differences, Holocaust

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• My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Reality, People, Leader

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• It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Character, Political, Doe

  Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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• As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is that republics came to the world to make sure that no one is more than anyone else. The pomp of office is like something left over from a feudal past: "You need a palace, red carpet, a lot of people behind you saying, 'Yes, sir.' I think all of that is awful."

  Jose Mujica

  Kings, Powerful, Humble

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• The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.

  Paul Harvey

  Political, Gravity, Situation

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• No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Country, Political, Principles

  Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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• The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

  Michael Kinsley

  Definitions, Telling The Truth

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• The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.

  Paul Washer

  Problem, Salvation, Preacher

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• No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control of income and prices. Otherwise the struggle for more consumption and more income to sustain it-a struggle that modern corporations, modern unions and modern democracy all facilitate and encourage-will drive up prices. Only heavy unemployment will then temper this upward thrust. Not many wish to confront the truth that the modern economy gives a choice only between inflation, unemployment, or controls.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Struggle, Giving, Choices

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• Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

  Wendell Phillips

  Horse, Political, Politics

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• I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?

  Ann Coulter

  Tired, Gun, Trying

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• We must never forget our responsibilities as politicians to our country and its citizens. We must always remain humble before our people.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Humble, Responsibility

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• The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason considered the ties of blood as feeble and precarious links of political connection.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Blood, Ties, Political

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.117, Coventry House Publishing

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• Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Men, Nbc

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• The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Beauty, Relation

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.155, Syracuse University Press

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• It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the most efficient thing to do would be to repeal their previous solution and stop being so gung-ho for creating new solutions in the future. But, politically, that is the last thing they will do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Creating, Political, Watches

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• Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

  Peggy Noonan

  Love, Disappointment, Fall

  Peggy Noonan, Steven Emerson, Brian Duffy, Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (1990). “Today's Best Nonfiction”

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• Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Political, Special, Groups

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• Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wise, Country, Government

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• When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.

  Italo Calvino

  People, Attention, Literature

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• "The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests, accelerating climate change, forced migration and mass civil disruption...The long and the short of it, unfortunately, is this: more politicians still believe that economic recovery depends on continuing to live beyond our means (financially and ecologically) than on learning to live within our means. And that's why the ultimate "Perfect Storm" recession still looms on the horizon

  Jonathon Porritt

  Business, Believe, Recovery

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• Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Revenge, Grateful, Power

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