#politicians

All politicians are to some extent salesmen. ↗

— George Will

#politicians #some

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. ↗

— George Will

#because #constitute #elite #fascinate #good

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough? ↗

— Joe Wurzelbacher

#enough #enough is enough #going #money #our

Politicians are masters of the art of deception. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#deception #masters #politicians

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

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

Live Like a Raj Thakare and Die Like a Balasaheb Thakare. ↗

— Sagar Ugale

#life #politicians #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

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing. ↗

— Aristophanes

#attributes #barter #character #demagoguery #government

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#politicians #psychedelics #squares #straights #behavior