Quotes 15601 till 15620 of 26406.
-
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
-
Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
-
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
-
Politicization means the expansion is slowing up and you are no longer attempting to achieve increased output per capita, or increased wealth, or increased satisfactions... but you are doing so by mobilizing power. We have seen this going on for almost a century....increased militarization.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
-
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
-
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
-
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
-
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
-
Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.
-
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
-
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
-
Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.
-
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
-
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
-
Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 15 -
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
-
Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
-
Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
-
Polygraphs are not allowed as evidence in most U.S. courts, but they're routinely used in police investigations, and the Defense Department relies heavily on them for security screening.
All and-most famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 781)