Quotes by Authors - Page 246

Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
In terms of our elected officials, I think we need to ask...: How far should we go with our need to know before we completely veer off into the personal and the private and leave behind any chance of having a legitimate debate or discussion or discourse about the issues at hand?
John Lewis
Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.
Kenneth Eade
I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.
Kenneth Eade
Politicians are crooks!
Kenneth Eade
Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn't say it out loud, though.
Alexander Gordon Smith
If Lincoln were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave.
Gerald R. Ford
I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?
Dan Groat
As a result, amongst working-class Americans, government is now generally seen as being made up of two sorts of people: "politicians," who are blustering crooks and liars but can at least occasionally be voted out of office, and "bureaucrats," who are condescending elitists almost impossible to uproot.
David Graeber
We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.
Howard Zinn
The Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure.
Dana Perino
Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.
Warren Ellis
If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.
Stendhal
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.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the stick entirely understandable.
Gail Carriger
The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds.
Nana Awere Damoah
Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses.
Amit Abraham
You can shape people how ever you like it, but first you have to gain their Trust
Beta Metani' Marashi
[politicians are] like toddlers arguing over who gets the candy, but with a better vocabulary and less whacking each other with toys.
Garon Whited
If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved.
Robert A. Heinlein
Wc What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Angela Davis
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Angela Davis
Politicians will always be honest.To themselves!
Anthony T.Hincks
Politicians and low profiles rarely went together.
Marshall Thornton
United Nations needs reform to connect with world community beyond the boundary of high-level bureaucrats and politicians through cyberspace and other means to put itself at the heart of worldwide public needs, hopes, and fears.
Amit Ray
The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don’t vote.
Andrew Vachss
Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....
Peggy Noonan
he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.
Leo Tolstoy
Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.
Sebastian Barry
People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians. Statesmen are leaders who uphold what is right regardless of the popularity of the position. Statesmen speak out to achieve good for their people, not to win votes. Statesmen promote the general good rather than regional or personal self-interest.
Henry T. Blackaby
God, you don't just barge in on my father, and definitely not my mother."No way. You check with their personal secretaries first. Check out their moods. Then you make an appointment to slip in. There are basic things you learn when your parents run a planet.
Mike Shepherd
My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.
Craig Ferguson
Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what’s happened.
Matt Taibbi
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.
Adolf Hitler
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
He's an honest politician--he stays bought.
Robert A. Heinlein
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal
Give me this moment," Kahl said to me. I glanced up at him and couldn't fathom the depths of his taunting amber irises."You have it." "Be my angel... Leave with me," he whispered. In that moment, when thoughts of the boy I loved left me and fissures of pure bliss consumed me, I knew I was in trouble.
Nadège Richards
I saw my first angel.And it was you.
Tegan Quin
An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.
Sara Quin
Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
Ellen Hopkins
Choices are exhibited through the notions of free will,temptation challenges them.
Crimson "C.L. Williams"
Oh yes. You’ve done a marvelous job of succeeding at failure.
Laura Kreitzer
What are they fighting about?” Saba listened for a moment and closed her eyed in frustration. “They’re arguing scripture.” “Your brother is arguing scripture? With an angel?
Dawn Jayne
If I weren't out of my mind at this second, I would've sworn he nuzzled my temple.
Piper Shelly
Mitch thought she looked like an angel might—if the angel had fallen very hard into a very naughty position.
Lauren Stewart
Alex grabbed our things from the bike and bought them inside; then he fastened the tent closed, securing us in."Come here, babe, I'll keep you warm.
l.a weatherly
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
Dean Koontz
You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you."He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in an instant. "Why? I'm all those things and more."I shook my head. Ian was more proud of his depravity than anyone I'd met, but if he helped me pull Bones out from under four bespelled vampires and one demonically-enchanced vamp, I'd shower him with prostitutes and porn while swearing he was an angel.
Jeaniene Frost
We were together because we were addicted to each other. I was never as intoxicated as I was when we were happy together, and I knew it was the same for him. We were putting ourselves through the wringer for those moments of perfection between us, but they were so tenuous that only our stubbornness, determination and love kept us fighting for them.
Sylvia Day
The memory of the previous nights fun and games rose again. Hell this whole week had been weird. With the attack at the boat launch being the shit flavored ice cream on top of the crazy pie.
Diana Rowland
Finally,” Lilith said, smiling warmly at her. “A reasonable angel.”“I’m no angel,” Eleanore quietly insisted.“Yes, you are,” said every man in the room.
Heather Killough-Walden
He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.
Terry Pratchett
I'm sorry if me being turned on turns you on.
Kirsty Moseley
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris
She has a smile that grows slowly and then shines, like an angel’s smile.
Philippa Gregory