#politician

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic. ↗

— Don Young

#arctic #chatter #coal #coming #courage

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#country #desert #first #oasis #parasite

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#divide #lead #politician #rule #unite

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#better way #complicated #dangerous #dangerously #facts

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. ↗

— David Hackworth

#bay #beltway #care #fervor #game

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#definition #politician

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician. ↗

— James Harrington

#first #historian #man #may #must

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american #american politics #been #buy #economic

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics. ↗

— Vladimir Odoevsky

#politics #life

A dirty diaper doesn’t double as a dishrag, and a politician doesn’t double as a savior.
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #politicians #politics #funny