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Politician Quotes by Howard Zinn
- Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more…
- Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They…
- Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative of the national…
- If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be…
- We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in…
- I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become…
More Politician Quotes
- Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan. — Michele Bachmann
- Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker