It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
We don't have warlords. We have strongmen. They control provinces with military forces. These men at one time controlled territory; they have… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness,… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Often vastly more important, international agreements are not routinely published in draft form or publicly debated, and civil society organizations and ordinary… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We're not seeing, you know, dozens of reporters being beaten up. And there may be more attention to it than there has… — Tom Rosenstiel Copy Share Image
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
A lot of evangelicals have grown accustomed to feeling used by the political process. Every politician appeals to us, every one wants… — Paula White Copy Share Image
Our politicians have sacrificed their principles on the altar of special interests; our corporate leaders have sacrificed their integrity on the altar… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I never imagined I'd be working with government, or military or politicians or big companies. None of this stuff I'm doing was… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“If you want to predict how a politician will act after winning an election, look at how he currently lives and how… — Haemin Sunim Copy Share Image
Look, again, I'm competing against professional politicians, senators, top of the line. I know Ben Carson is still in, and he's a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping.… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt,… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
They [African-American community] have been abused and used in order to get votes by Democrat politicians, because that's what it is. They've… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I would argue that there's been a backlash this year [2016]. They [the Kochs] pushed the [Republican] party too far right. The… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
A genuine approach to budget cutting - knowing exactly what you're cutting and why, and with what real-life consequences - is beyond… — George Packer Copy Share Image
What makes a politician accountable is not that there are millions of people who vote, but that there are procedures of government… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image