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Letter "P" » Politicians
«It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.»
Author: Charles Kuralt
(Correspondent, Journalist)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
entertainers, flames, In Flames, once in a while
«It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.»
«It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
| About:
Politicians,
University
| Keywords:
aspects, opportunist, opportunists, prescribe, terribly, untrue
«I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.»
Author: Helen Gurley Brown
(Editor, Writer)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
caring, cosmopolitan, fright
«I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters»
Author: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(Painter)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Men and Women,
Opinions,
Politicians,
Women,
Writers
«It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.»
«I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.»
Author: Anne Frank
(Author)
| About:
Politicians,
War
| Keywords:
ago, all over, built up, capitalists, cultivated, destroyed, disfigure, disfigured, exception, Great War, grown, guilty, Just War, keen, keenest, long ago, Long War, murder, over again, People of, Politicians, rage, rages, revolt, revolted, revolts, risen, the Big, The War, undergoes, urge, waged, wars, World War I
«I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
belong to, dye, dyed-in-the-wool, dyed, dyes, intend, Party of, Republican, The Party, wool
«It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.»
«It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
arrogance, career, contempt, finish, hypocrisy, proceed, This Man, to begin with
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