Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [401-420] of 769 Politics quotesPolitics QuotesPolitics Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.~ John F. Kennedy Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.~ Nikita Khrushchev We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The truth needs so little rehearsal.~ Barbara Kingsolver Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.~ Michael Kinsley Politicians: Little Tin Gods on Wheels.~ Rudyard Kipling Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.~ Henry Kissinger The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.~ Henry Kissinger We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.~ Henry Kissinger In a free market, consumer sovereignty and competition tend to create instability when sellers learn to game the system too well... In a technocratic system, it is more difficult for consumers to exercise countervailing power. Innovative competitors are often precluded by regulation. Suppliers tend to apply concentrated lobbying power to protect their interests, while the diffuse interests of the consumer are poorly represented in the political process. ... Centralized, regulated systems look good on paper, and they may be effective as they start. However, market systems learn faster, because competitive innovation prevents a market from getting captured by the incumbents who have learned how to game the system.~ Arnold Kling In their tendencies toward tolerance, openmindedness, faith in people and lack of authoritarianism, selfactualizers do appear to possess psychic strengths which allow them to work well in situations marked by a diversity of viewpoints.~ Jeanne Knutson Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs -- even when we benefit from them. I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.~ Charles Koch Government spending on business only aggravates the problem. Too many business have successfully lobbied for special favors and treatment by seeking mandates for their products, subsidies (in the form of cash payments from the government), and regulations and tariffs to keep more efficient competitors at bay. Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.~ Charles Koch Thus corporations finally claimed the full rights enjoyed by individual citizens while being exempted from many of the responsibilities and liabilities of citizenship. Furthermore, in being guaranteed the same right to free speech as individual citizens, they achieved, in the words of Paul Hawken, 'precisely what the Bill of Rights was intended to prevent: domination of public thought and discourse.' The subsequent claim by corporations that they have the same right as any individual to influence the government in their own interest pits the individual citizen against the vast financial and communications resources of the corporation and mocks the constitutional intent that all citizens have an equal voice in the political debates surrounding important issues.~ David C. Korten Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.~ Prince Peter Kropotkin Heterodox doctrines, in economics and elsewhere, often fail to get adequately discussed in their formative stages: both the intellectual and the political establishment tend to regard them as unworthy of notice. Meanwhile, those doctrines can seem compelling to large numbers of people (some of whom may have considerable political clout, large financial resources, or both). By the time it becomes apparent that such influential ideas demand serious attention after all, reasoned argument has become very difficult. People have become invested emotionally, politically, and financially in the doctrine; careers and even institutions have been built on it; and the proponents can no longer allow themselves to contemplate the possibility that they have taken a wrong turning.~ Paul Krugman What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.~ Edward Langley The road to hell is paved with good intentions.~ Late 16th Century Proverb The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.~ Stanislaw Jerszy Lec Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.~ John Lehman Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print