What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians. — Bill Delahunt Copy Share Image
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged. — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it. — Ely Culbertson Copy Share Image
Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Hardly anybody tells the truth these days. For the truth I have to go to Washington DC, and whatever a politician says,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer,… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think its important that they use that… — Serinda Swan Copy Share Image
To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got… — Hamilton Jordan Copy Share Image
The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The thing about Barack Obama, just from being around him, is he's cooler than the other politicians, but just nerdy enough to… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language… This plan would… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It seemed like after the 80s and 90s there came a sort of weird time in politics, where something like Spitting Image… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many politicians in the West cling to the notion of a partnership with Russia. They want to include [Vladimir] Putin, make compromises… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The truth is our immigration system is worse than anybody ever realized. But the facts aren't known because the media won't report… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Once you say you're going to have to tax them coming in, and our politicians never do this, because they have special… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Actually we're not hearing a lot about gas prices right now from constituents. And I think that reflects a growing understanding on… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians,… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run.… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer… — Nick Love Copy Share Image
But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
In 'The Adjustment Bureau,' Damon shows movie-star concentration as David Norris, a politician whose world ambitions hit a pothole when his angry… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should… — Nigel Godrich Copy Share Image
The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image