“This bill will allow politicians to tell voters they're, quote, doing something about high energy prices. And the bill also allows politicians to hand out subsidies and preferences and tax dollars to well-organized interest groups -- and that's what Congress likes to do best.”
Jerry Taylor
“Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children”
Howard Zinn
“One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.”
Henry Miller
“Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
