#politicians

I once saw a snake having sex with a vulture, and I thought, It’s just business as usual in Washington DC.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #filth #normal #politicians #politics

However...," Satan said. Bick sighed. "However, I didn't count on the growing interference of lawyers, regulators, bureaucrats and politicians into my business. I swear it seems that every year they stick their noses into more and more." Lucifer chuckled. "Sorry about that-I outdid myself there. ↗

— R.S. Belcher

#politicians #business

Most people don’t know where money comes from. Even most of our elected officials don’t know. If you were to ask a politician where money comes from, s/he would probably reply, “I don’t know, from other people’s pockets?”
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— Jarod Kintz

#politics #change

The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS> LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS> POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS> VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION> PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet...) & EDUCATION so. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY. ↗

— William J Federer

#country #education #future #future-generations #government

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#debate #politicians #politics #regime-attacks #change

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#be true #careful #good #look #nothing

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. ↗

— Phillip Adams

#dangerous #diabolical #men #politicians #separated

Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about business and money. One will tell you that in a particular country a man is worth the sum he could be sold for in Algiers; another, by following this calculation, will find countries where a man is worth nothing, and others where he is worth less than nothing. They assess men like herds of livestock. According to them, a man has no value to the State apart from what he consumes in it. Thus one Sybarite would have been worth at least thirty Lacedaemonians. Would someone therefore hazard a guess which of these two republics, Sparta or Sybaris, was overthrown by a handful of peasants and which one made Asia tremble? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#money #politicians #sparta #valor #virtue

To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded by 600,000 people who make the whole world miserable is to live in Washington DC. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #family #family-reunion #miserable #misery

Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One’s a burp and the other’s a fart.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #democrats #funny #government #humor