Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions… — Marc Levine Copy Share Image
It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that… — Richard Ingrams Copy Share Image
The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The Tea Party was really a two-front war - one against Obama, the other against any Republican politician who reeked of insiderdom… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world,… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
No matter what our job is, we view it not as our purpose in life but rather as where God has sovereignly… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
This document will play an important role in protecting the strategic interests of Russia and Uzbekistan and ensuring stability and security in… — Islom Karimov Copy Share Image
Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm quite optimistic when it comes to the capacity of our people to have an honest discussion about what's really going on.… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
We are living in a culture that if you criticize immorality you could be branded as a "bigot". I am going to… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
“A politician who brings personal integrity into leadership helps us reclaim the popular trust that distinguishes true democracy from its cheap imitations.” — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone,… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
69 percent of the people want our politicians to work together. And I think this should be a message to Democrats and… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling… — Paul Laxalt Copy Share Image
As minister of finance, Mr. Flaherty served his country with dedication and conviction, even as he faced mounting health challenges. As both… — Thomas Mulcair Copy Share Image
Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Don't listen to me. I'm not a politician. I know nothing about politics. But people are cheering when something very bad happens… — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I really do believe that was what I was put on this planet to do: to give to people and, through my… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am… — H. D. Deve Gowda Copy Share Image
Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image