Politics Quote by Joseph Casper Husslein

“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

“In democracies, by contrast, the propaganda of the press and public opinion relentlessly promised servants that they, too, could reach the pinnacles of society…

— Alain de Botton

“The wealthy exert a commanding influence over the state through virtually unlimited political campaign contributions, armies of lobbyists, the revolving door that shuffles former…

— David A. Nibert

“The other type of politician tends to be manipulative, selfish, and have unhealthy needs to be the center of attention. These people play games,…

— Richard L. Hughes

“Politicians lie with almost every breath they mustered, and didn't hesitate to slit each other's throats for gain. They were whores willing to sell…

— Richard Stephenson

"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be…

— Edmund Burke

“A politician in our democratic government is a broker for the use of government force to the highest bidders.”

— Erne Lewis

“All we do is disguise our weak politics behind a powerful bureaucracy and disguise our powerful bureaucracy behind weak political decision making.”

— Ryan Gelpke

“The bigger the corporation, the bigger the corruption. The more invisible the corporation, the more malicious it is.”

— Mango Wodzak

“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of…

— Alexander Hamilton