Politics Quotes - Page 33

• It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable.

  Tom Coburn

  Two, Political, Receiving

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Career politicians do not have the courage to prioritize spending and say no to demanding special interest groups who do not reflect the best interests of the country.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Careers, Political

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• If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

  Robert Byrd

  Office, Political, Term Limits

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• In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Yield, Land

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• Our nations are so close yet such a visit took 17 years. This will change & we will strengthen India-Nepal ties.

  Narendra Modi

  Years, Ties, India

  Twitter post from Aug 3, 2014

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• The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

  Tom Coburn

  Careers, Political, Ego

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• We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

  Tom Coburn

  Political, Term Limits, Achieve

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.218, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The spirit of sacrifice and selflessness of the defence forces is an inspiration for all Indians. Strong armed forces are necessary for an atmosphere of peace, amity, harmony and brotherhood in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Strong, Inspiration

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• They wanted me to be a Washington.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Political, Term Limits, Wanted

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• Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have developed faith in the institutions of democracy.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Bhutan, Years

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• Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Political Will, May

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• I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth.

  Narendra Modi

  Night, Reality, Years

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• The respect that I have got is not for Narendra Modi or the PM of India. It is respect for the people of India.

  Narendra Modi

  Pms, People, India

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• If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.

  Charles Ferguson

  Religious, Political, United States

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• The budget is forward looking growth engine and will promote transparency and integrity. It is for the common people. This budget shows where we want to take India through railways. It budget aspires for better service, speed and safety. It is an effort to create modern railways contributing towards a developed India.

  Narendra Modi

  Integrity, People, Safety

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• The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Struggle, Voice

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• Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Thinking, Bhutan, Progress

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• Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Past, People, Community

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• With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

  Randolph Bourne

  War, Political, States

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1919). “Untimely Papers”

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• When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."

  Graham T. Allison

  War, Stress, Past

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• We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Two, People

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

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• Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger.

  Erik Larson

  Fall, Political, Saws

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• But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful.

  Charles Ferguson

  Children, Book, Successful

  Charles Ferguson (2014). “Inside Job: The Financiers Who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century”, p.5, Oneworld Publications

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• Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Government, Political, Foundation

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• We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics.

  John Boehner

  More Money

  "Too much money in politics? Boehner says he's not buying it" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2015.

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