#politicians

Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword.
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— Jarod Kintz

#politics #change

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation ↗

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

#politics #statesmen #elections

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#decisions #justice #know #longer #memory

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#control #corporations #destroying #division #entertainment

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#bear #eating #expansion #federal #form

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#decades #extends #few #gotten #journalists

Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn't have time to read them all or respond to them all, but he's getting good feedback and getting a good sense of how people are thinking about that and maybe can respond to some of it. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#already #celebrities #facebook #feedback #gets

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#cia #committed #crime #culture #dogs

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. ↗

— Ray Davies

#corruption #crooked #hearing #keep #know

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#clan #doctrine #honesty #honesty is #incompatible