Quotes About Politicians

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

How do politicians cope with the challenges of predicting or manipulating the future, given that we can have only partial knowledge of the systems being analysed? 'I think that's rather a flattering account of what goes on here. With some notable exceptions it's mostly a bunch of very egotistical people, very ambitious people, who are primarily interested in their own careers.

That situation might look simple in Washington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

Left untended, the holes through which freedom escapes widen. When politicians restrict our rights in order to "protect us," freedom is lost. When the military refuses to disclose basic facts, freedom is lost. Worst of all, when fear becomes a part of our lives, we willingly surrender freedom for a promise of safety, as if freedom weren't the very basis of safety.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.

And politicians in Washington and Tallahassee are still undermining efforts to fix the dysfunctional ecosystem, even as they bloviate about its beauty and majesty and irreplaceability.

Politicians argued successfully for cuts in expenditure and more openness. Consequently, secret services became more answerable to politicians than they ever had been, just at a time when they needed to be more furtive.

International ships are left to defend themselves as best they can, constrained by international rules that the pirates care nothing for, as politicians in the West apply liberalist attitudes to peoples whose outlook is profoundly illiberal and mediaeval. If history can be seen as regressing, the issue of piracy in the twenty-first century is surely the finest example.

Best years of my life. Hell, killing, drinking, and fucking—to an Okie from Henryetta, Vietnam wasn't no war, it was a goddamned vacation." He shook his head. "Politicians fucked up a pretty good war.

Many of us become walking self-caricatures at a certain point, and politicians can be particularly vulnerable, especially those who have maneuvered their very public lives as conspicuously as McCain. They tell and retell the same stories; things get musty. They engage in a lot of self-mythologizing,

Politicians who justify the lockdown craze often argue that we are ridding our streets and neighborhoods of violent offenders and feared super predators. Policy-makers thus play again on the public's "common sense" assumption that prisons "keep the innocent safe from the guilty.

However, why do so many loving parents, as part of the ruling generation, abandon the civil society for the growing tyranny of a voracious central government that steals their children's future, thus condemning their children and unborn generations to a dangerously precarious and unstable environment, despite a large majority acknowledging the national decline for which they blame politicians?

press has been campaigning alongside Democratic politicians, officials, consultants, and surrogates for President Trump's impeachment since even before his nomination.

The laws of economics, like the laws of science, are real, unlike the utopian images and empty assurances of expedient and self-aggrandizing politicians and bureaucrats.

The laws of economics, like the laws of science, are real, unlike the utopian images and empty assurances of expedient and self-aggrandizing politicians and bureaucrats. There is a point of irreversibility from which no generation and the larger society can recover.