#politicians

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#ballot #cross #deciding #democracy #even

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#clever #committees #i #interest #people

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#direction #favour #follow #history #noticing

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american idol #believe #children #concerts #counterparts

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#atheists #bigotry #bigots #christianity #ignorance

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't. ↗

— Frank Rich

#again #change #doing #facts #kind

I can't give political advice to politicians. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#give #i #political #politicians

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians. ↗

— Dwayne Andreas

#free market #market #only #place #politicians

Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians. ↗

— Amado Boudou

#communicate #directly #fed #fed up #helps

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#country #government #lowered #our #politicians