politicians

A politician has an axe to grindWith which he aims to chop off half your mind.

... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always. There was no way they could not fail us - they were human, and so were we.

The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory out

I wish politicians the world over would stop claiming credit for economic growth that happens despite them, not because of them. Grow up...

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

Wc What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Politicians are the sole cause of our incurable social eczema

The greatest of all faults in a politician, and in any leader, is the failure to recognize that charisma has nothing to do with ability, excellence, or goodness. In fact, charisma enables far more the evils of the universe than great and worthy accomplishments, Give me pedestrian accomplishments over charisma any day.

No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil President Lyndon Johnson mentioned to Secretary of State Dean Rusk that he should ask DeGaulle about the Americans buried in France. Dean implied in his answer that that DeGaulle should not really be asked that in the meeting at which point President Johnson then told Secretary of State Dean Rusk:"Ask him about the cemeteries Dean!"That made it into a Presidential Order so he had to ask President DeGaulle.So at end of the meeting Dean did ask DeGaulle if his order to remove all U.S. troops from French soil also included the 60,000+ soldiers buried in France from World War I and World War II.DeGaulle, embarrassed, got up and left and never answered.

... By disarming, you at once give offense, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either as doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

The Nazi salute was performed by public officials in the USA from 1892 through 1942. The researcher Dr. Rex Curry asks 'What happened to the photographs and films of the American Nazi salute performed by federal, state, county, and local officials?' Those photos and films are rare because people don't want to know the truth. Public officials in the USA who preceded the German socialist (Hitler) and the Italian socialist (Mussolini) were sources for the stiff-armed salute (and robotic chanting) in those countries and other foreign countries.

The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the stick entirely understandable.

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

Politicians and low profiles rarely went together.

A politician is worse than the arsonist, for he lights the fire and then vows if elected he will supply more fire trucks.

Sound bytes. Catch phrases. Sales pitches. Words. All lexical legitimizing. __ rose by any other name_ he said. In the end it__ all propaganda.