#politician

I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#care #guy #i #joe #politicians

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#fear #hand #into #playing #politicians

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#before #found #had #means #merely

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#hate #interest #love #neither #nor

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#against #always #basic #campaigns #concrete

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#fall #help #just #love #politicians

I'm glad I'm not a politician. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#i #politician

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat. ↗

— Christine O'Donnell

#career politicians #citizen #congress #down #elect

I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#depend #families #get #i #incomes

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#complex #life #people #personality #politician