For way too long, the politicians and the people in power have gotten away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and the ecological crisis. – Greta Thunberg Houses of Parliament in UK, 23 April 2019.
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low. – Henry Louis Gates
The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle. – George E. Brown, Jr.
Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren’t for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems. – Ian Lustick
The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics. – John Podhoretz
Of course, politicians always say they’re just describing their opponents’ positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies. – James Surowiecki
We shouldn’t require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we’re all influenced by charisma. It’s hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it. – Julianne Moore
I’m in England so often I haven’t really left, but Americans aren’t at all like they’re misrepresented through their politicians. – John Lydon
It’s very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world. – Antonio Tabucchi
We shouldn’t have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional. – Bill Shuster
I’m not a politician. I don’t want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what’s right. – Ben Carson
An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms. – Adam Michnik
Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords. – Charles Kennedy
