#politician

The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

#always #fact #leaders #lives #need

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

I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print. The press is so accustomed to politicians wanting those things, it's a surprise when somebody's like, 'Whatever, I'm not really worried about those things.' ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#accustomed #futures #how #i #i think

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#because #been #city #city council #congress

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 first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#hands #least #monetary #money #over

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#born #bred #dissenter #hard #honest

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested! ↗

— Thierry Henry

#even #i #interested #jordan #maybe