#politician

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. ↗

— Tony Blair

#another #bit #creative #even #gets

Conflict is created by two conditions: the evil that is sanctioned by the corrupted…and the sacrifice borne by upright men and women who chose to destroy it. ↗

— Adam Turquine - from Beyond Mars Crimson Fleet

#corrupt #corruption #evil #politicians #politics

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#obeys #paradise #petty #politician #republic

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#i #politician

I can't give political advice to politicians. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#give #i #political #politicians

Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians. ↗

— Amado Boudou

#communicate #directly #fed #fed up #helps

I wish somebody would combine tasers and dildos, and test the devices out on all the politicians in Washington DC. Well, all the politicians except Barney Frank, who’d actually derive pleasure from the experiment.
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— Jarod Kintz

#experiment #pleasure #politicians #politics #taser

Though my stomach is only the size of a pea, I could eat two politicians’ brains.
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— Jarod Kintz

#eat #eating #food #funny #humor

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#approach #arbitrary #argument #based #between

Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington. ↗

— Howard Coble

#concurred #decisions #future #i #involvement