#politicians

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#appointing #argue #because #campaign #emphatic

In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#every #give #ground #high #hold

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. ↗

— David Hockney

#deciding #down #enjoyable #exciting #i

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion. ↗

— John Hume

#class #controlled #difficult #discriminatory #districts

There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity. ↗

— John Hume

#called #change #discriminating #had #hands

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#inexcusable #journalists #make #politicians #scientists

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails. ↗

— Ian Gilmour

#order #politicians #power #quest #sails

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

Politicians are like warts on the body of society. And the only thing worse than warts are lawyers and lobbyists.
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— Jarod Kintz

#lobbyists #politicians #politics #society #change