The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians.
Lobbying has become a term of reproach, as if it were improper to push for a particular belief. This has happened because of paid lobbyists whose opinions are for hire and the fear that decision-makers, whether politicians or officials, are susceptible to their charms and wiles. This has tarred entirely proper lobbying with the same brush.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
Politicians should not get involved in the detail of clinical criteria and shouldn't be arguing with professors and consultants over whether there is one standard deviation or two standard deviations.
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged.
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
The Umbrella Movement can be described as an encyclopedia. Politicians and student leaders wrote it, and let the masses read it and react passively.
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
Washington is deeply frustrating because so many of the positions that politicians hold are a product of ephemeral self-interest. They reverse themselves, for themselves, all the time.
As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.
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.
Protectionist politicians cannot stand the notion of a fossil-fuel-rich America maintaining record levels of production through exports.
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
