Quotes About Politicians

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

Many [British politicians] do not know much more of continental conditions than we do of the condition in Peru or Siam. They are also rather naive in their artless egoism. They find difficulty believing in really evil intentions in others; they are very calm, very phlegmatic, very optimistic. The country exudes wealth, comfort, content and confidence in its own power and future. The people simply cannot believe that things could ever go really wrong, either at home or abroad.

Three questions divided reformers: Who should issue the new currency? To what degree should the system be centralized? And should bankers or politicians be in control?

Observing the volatile nature of the new democracies, I came vividly to see how unimportant a part of democracy are elections, in comparison with the enduring institutions and public spirit that make elected politicians accountable.

This is possible only if we retain our trust in negotiation and in the sincere desire, among politicians, to compromise with their opponents. Hence in both Britain and America it is necessary for conservatives to defend the politics of compromise, and to protect all those institutions and customs that give a voice to opposition. This

There must be a lot of duplication in our country's laws, said Dukhi. Every time there are elections, they talk of passing the same ones passed twenty years ago. Someone should remind them they need to apply the laws. For politicians, passing laws is like passing water, said Narayan. It all ends down the drain.

But too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart, as my favourite poet has written.' 'Who's that?' 'W. B. Yeats. And I think that sometimes normal behaviour has to be suppressed, in order to carry on.' 'I'm not sure,' said Maneck. 'Wouldn't it be better to respond honestly instead of hiding it? Maybe if everyone in the country was angry or upset, it might change things, force the politicians to behave properly.

In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly."15 Increasingly Hamilton despaired of pure democracy, of politicians simply catering to the popular will, and favored educated leaders who would enlighten

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs—as long as no one is watching, anything goes. Systems

We afford automatic respect to superstar business moguls, politicians, and actors and to anyone flying around in a private jet, as if their accomplishments must reflect unique qualities not shared by those forced to eat commercial-airline food.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

There are far more cases in which politicians knew what they wanted to do, and then just leaned on economics—sometimes very bad economics—for support.

Apart from stemming consumption, the most intractable puzzle that Paul Ehrlich has encountered is why health decisions about Mother Nature—the mother that gives us life and breath—are made by politicians, not by scientists who know how critical her condition is. "It's the immoral equivalent of insurance company accountants making decisions about our personal health." Even

The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No, we don't. And if that's his answer, then he won't have anything to do with any of the politicians. Because they all want to land us in hell.

There are some very inventive adults, Mma. When you listen to them, you have to divide everything they say by two, and then take away ten. As you have to do with some politicians.

Dr. Svensson nodded. "As are judges and public health officials and politicians too, I suppose. Anybody who tells us how to behave is a policeman in a sense." "But not therapists?" Dr. Svensson laughed. "A therapist shouldn't tell you how to behave. A therapist should help you to see why you do what you do, and should help you to stop doing it—if that's what you want. So, no, a therapist is certainly not a policeman.

Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unlike these people were modern politicians, who thought only of power and tricks.

We do not want people thinking that we're trying to start a dynasty," he explained. "You know how you get those politicians who are sons of other politicians and grandsons of even more politicians. I do not think that is very democratic, and so I shall not be involved in this campaign, even if I fully support it

The claim that Islam is a religion of peace is a nicety invented by Western politicians so as either not to offend their Muslim populations or simply lie to themselves that everything might yet turn out fine. In fact, since its beginning Islam has been pretty violent.

Perhaps nothing was done to reverse the trend because no one in power believed anything could be done. If this was a political truth then it remained wholly unmentionable. Nobody could get elected on such a platform, and so a continent-wide tradition arose of politicians saying things and making promises that they knew to be unachievable.

Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica.

One particular Facebook policy, which the company has dubbed the "newsworthiness exemption," has come under fire from activists, who believe it privileges politicians' speech above their own. The policy allows posts that otherwise violate community standards to remain on the platform if the company believes the public's interest in seeing it outweighs the risk of harm.