#politicians

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#financially #first #foremost #get #help

Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#agree #also #better #both #democrats

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#bush #came #cheney #corporate #corporate interests

If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#dumping #ground #had #his #listened

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#around #because #community #empowered #fancy

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. ↗

— John Keegan

#diplomat #diplomats #get #into #most

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#active #always #how #i #nervous

I don’t like dirt, because nothing is dirtier. Except politics.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #dirt #dirty #filthy #funny

How strange it is that the house of these hedonic stalwarts is filled with all the luxuries of life, right from plasma televisions to Swiss bank cheque books. So how will they notice the tonnes of food grains rotting in the northern belt? ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#food

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#america #american #american politics #assassination #character