Cynical Quote by Alice Rivlin Download Open image “Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.” — Alice Rivlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynical Government Pessimism Politics
You should always be questioning your government, but do not become cynical. — Pete Visclosky Copy Share Image
Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their… — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I think people are very cynical with actors trying to tell them what to believe in, or lobbying for any kind of changing of… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do think that politicians are only in it for themselves, but actually as Ive got older Ive started to feel less cynical… — Hugh Dennis Copy Share Image
One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates. [Congress]… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago. — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy. — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest. — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before… — Steve Goodier Copy Share
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much. — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
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