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Politics
«Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.»
«Citizens want not just input but influence.»
Author: Deborah Reyher
| About:
Politics
«Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.»
«Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Citizenship,
Politics,
Voting
| Keywords:
citizens, elected, officials, vote
«Bush has cruised through life fueled by booze, drugs and bravado. He?s proud to be an underachiever and he rests comfortably on the laurels of his father. He?s failed at every venture he?s ever undertaken. And every mess he?s created has been cleaned up for him?arrests for drunk driving, cocaine, AWOL from the National Guard and numerous bad business deals. He is a self-made disaster. Yet, he was handed the keys to the kingdom?TWICE!Fool me once, shame on you?.Fool me twice??.God help us all.»
«Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Commitment,
Compromise,
Politics
| Keywords:
expedient, Expedients, party politics, roof, statesmanship, temporary expedient, umbrella, umbrellas, unwise
«Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Politics,
Speech
| Keywords:
commencement, eschew, eschewed, nonetheless, partisans, preference, smacks
«A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
American, American politics, at issue, avoidance, issues, issuing, politics, saying, take issue, typical, vice