The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate appease bribe seduce bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and...
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he is a statesman.
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.
Our archaeological ancestry lost hair while growing sweat glands to reduce panting in the hot African sun. One outcome evolved the origin of our speech. Another conquered our ability to shut the hell...
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
The politicians looked after the mandarins. The mandarins looked after the central bankers and the regulators. (The governor of the Central Bank was paid more in 2008 than the chairman of the US Feder...
'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can't seem to get beyond about page three.'They were comfortable in each other's company, and this confessi...
Wc What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears
President Obama and the so call "Department of Justice" has ripped the fabric of America's People and suborning hate among African Americans against Law Enforcement and Whites. These actions have made...
Don't let cycles of violent crimes, uncontrollable, rising cases of bloody impunity, evil puppets in a crippled judiciary, marionettes in a corrupted legislative system manipulated by a fascist execut...
It is considered a rather cheerful axiom that all Americans distrust politicians. (No one takes the further and less cheerful step of considering just what effect this mutual contempt has on either th...
Most of the mortgaged farmers.Most of the white-collar workers who had been unemployed these three years and four and five.Most of the people on relief rolls who wanted more relief.Most of the suburba...
Watch a man--say, a politician--being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstration of what both he and his interrogators learned in school: all questions have answers, and it is a g...
Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain...
In the land of the ostriches, the blind are king. When politicians bury their head in the sand, ignorance rules the country. ( "High noon." )
Neither mislead nor misguide.
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