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Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. Their first rule is “don’t rock the boat.” If someone makes trouble and you can get him, do it. If you can’t get him, bring him in. Give him some of the action, let him have a taste of power. Power is all anyone wants, and if he has a promise of it as a reward for being good, he’ll be good. Anyone who does not play by those rules is incomprehensible to most politicians. Shirley Chisholm
Charles Dickens quote: "As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they..."
As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals. Charles Dickens
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment. George Carlin
Isaac Asimov quote: "It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of..."
It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research. Isaac Asimov
You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life? when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings? when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors? when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than... Wilhelm Reich
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician. Eugene Ionesco
A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success. Robert Musil
The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No, we don't. And if that's his answer, then he won't have anything to do with any of the politicians. Because they all want to land us in hell. Aldous Huxley
Katharine Hepburn quote: "You politicians remain professional because the voters remain..."
You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur. Katharine Hepburn
Whenever he reads articles in newspapers or magazines written by politicians using global warming or the destruction of the environment for their electoral campaigns, he thinks: How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was and always will be stronger than us. We can’t destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don’t they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us? Because “Saving the planet” gives a sense of... Paulo Coelho
Mark Twain quote: "An honest politician is an oxymoron."
An honest politician is an oxymoron. Mark Twain
Tom Clancy quote: "I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I..."
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops. Tom Clancy
All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs. Russell Banks
He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him. Kurt Vonnegut
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait. Ernst Mayr

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