Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...
T. Rafael CiminoTags: politics romance religion church political-philosophy religious politicians obama religious-faith states-rights
Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.
T. Rafael CiminoTags: politics america united-states political-philosophy political americans politicians republicans republican nuclear-weapons obama nuclear obama-speeches george-bush atomic-bomb
a politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man
Tags: humor politics poetry satire poems politicians
If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.
Juan R.I. ColeTags: money politics united-states elections politicians super-pacs
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: politics women preachers manipulation liars men-and-women politicians narcissism femininity narcissists sociopathology sociopaths
Having two non-functional parties is not a democracy, it's a losing coin flip.
Russ LippittTags: politics political politicians
...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: politics democracy paradoxes satire elections vote disappointment government government-corruption voting satirical political politicians election political-parties democracy-voting gadfly false-promises disappointments election-results general-election general-elections i-didn-t-vote i-hate-politics i-voted cast-your-vote not-what-you-were-expecting votes
No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.
Adolf HitlerTags: politicians
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
Alain de BottonTags: politics self-delusion politicians difficulties
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.
George PackerTags: politics politicians democrats republicans 1970s bipartisanship washington-dc u-s-politics
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