Political Quotes - Page 198

Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.

All art is political, all art is a martial one.

Invest in stupidity, its stocks never go down.

What's the meaning of "giornalista professionista"? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute!

One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right.

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.

And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke!

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.

But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to conspiracy theories than it is to productive political debate.

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.