politicians quotes

• "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. (Henry Kissinger) [politicians/give/bad/reputation]
• My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth. (Wystan Auden) [feeling/politicians/people/truth]
• Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power. (Jean Baudrillard) [politicians/power/contempt/people]
• The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. (Benjamin Disraeli) [democracy/politicians]
• It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. (Henrik Ibsen) [scientists/animals/politicians]
• Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. (Henry Kissinger) [politicians/give/bad/reputation]
• When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. (Walter Lippmann) [politicians]
• Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people. (Walter Lippmann) [politicians/men/willpower/politicians]
• I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters. (Pierre Auguste Renoir) [women/politicians]
• Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. (Salman Rushdie) [writers/politicians/fight]
• If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be. (Evelyn Waugh) [politicians]
• The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gas mask handy, it is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. (Virginia Woolf) [words/politicians/day/people]
• I've said, these politicians that switched to Giuliani, they're all gonna get paid off. Read American history, Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed. You can't be stupid about where you live! (Al Lewis) [politicians]
• You have to understand, the power structure and the errand boys, the guys who carry the bedpans for the power structure, the politicians, councilmen, congressmen, senators, whatever, they only understand one thing: numbers. (Al Lewis) [power/power/politicians/thing]
• America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling. (Al Lewis) [america/politicians]
• He used to be, actually a very successful actor. ... One of the things that's encouraging about that is it represents citizen politicians, people that aren't career politicians. (Ben Affleck) [politicians/people/career/politicians]
• “We've maintained a core of viewers who have been with us from the start. A core is what most politicians depend on for their success, so we sort of fell into that.” (Martin Sheen) [start/politicians]
• “It's really a story that makes as much fun of the body politic as any particular politicians. It makes fun of how we got to this place where there's a lot of politics in entertainment and a lot of entertainment in politics.” (Willem Dafoe) [soul & body/politicians/politics]
• There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians. (Margot Kidder) [god/movie/politicians]
• In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected. (Kevin Costner) [america/politicians/being/time]
• “Kinky will get the politicians out of politics, but we need your help to get him on the ballot. Kinky has only a few weeks to collect over 45,000 signatures, and I'll be one of those signatures, and I hope you will, too.” (Willie Nelson) [willpower/politicians/politics/help]
• In Canada, they have relaxed those laws... Keep telling the politicians... soon, nobody will be going to prison for smoking it. (Ziggy Marley) [politicians/willpower/prison/smoking]
• “And when they hear politicians slap - you know, thanking one another, it just, you know, it kind of cuts them the wrong way right now, because literally there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats because this woman had been laying in the street for 48 hours.” (Anderson Cooper) [politicians/right/soul & body/]
• It is very important for the freedoms of Britain that we do keep separate politicians from the legal process, … We must allow the due legal process to proceed. (Robin Cook) [politicians/process/process]
• Readers did not always agree with his [Cook’s] views but admire him for standing up for his principles - which they find a rare quality among politicians. (Robin Cook) [find/quality/politicians]
• Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it. (Kathleen Quinlan) [people/politicians/pain]
• All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected. () [politicians]
• Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know! (Tom Baker) [politicians/mail]
• I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies. (Twyla Tharp) [think/politicians/power]

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