Bad Politics Quotes

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act ... ~ Ai Weiwei

I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely. ~ Aaron Levie

Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change. ~ Celestine Sibley

Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election. ~ Narendra Modi

... I've seen the world tell us with wars and real estate developments and bad politics and odd court decisions that our lives don't matter. That may be because we are too many. Architecture and application form, modern life says that with so many of us we can best survive by ignoring identity and acting as it individual differences do not exist. Maybe the narcissism academics condemn in creative writers is but a last reaching for a kind of personal survival. Anyway, as a sound psychoanalyst once remarked to me dryly, narcissism is difficult to avoid. When we are told in dozens of insidious ways that our lives don't matter, we may be forced to insist, often far too loudly, that they do. ~ Richard Hugo

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open. ~ Woodrow Wilson

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. ~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Damn it, Asher. Half of me is pissed as hell at how you treated
Danny, half of me feels sorry for you, and half of me - "
"Is horrifyingly bad at math?" Asher asked. Oliver glared at
him. ~ Cardeno C.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame. ~ Meg Greenfield

Never try to make excuses for people. Sometimes a person might be good, but not be good for you.
Other times, a person's not good because they're just not good - all they bring you is heartaches, misery and all things undeserving. And you need to understand that it's alright for a person to be bad and that not even you can change them, unless they want to. ~ Temi O’Sola

Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon ~ Patrick Hennessey

It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has learned to fear and despise. Our Barbie-doll president, with his Barbie-doll wife and his boxful of Barbie-doll children is also America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the Werewolf in us; the bully, the predatory shyster who turns into something unspeakable, full of claws and bleeding string-warts on nights when the moon comes too close ... ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried to make them better and better. I slowly learned how to make movies, and I think I'm still learning. ~ Quentin Dupieux

All prevailing philosophies embody the fiction that human life can be altered at will. Better aim for the impossible, they say, than submit to fate. Invariably, the result is a cult of human self-assertion that soon ends in farce. The line of thinking that is traced in this book runs in an opposite direction - not only in questioning the idea of progress but also, and more fundamentally, in rejecting the idea that it is only through action that life can be meaningful. Politics is only a small part of human existence, and the human animal only a very small part of the world. Science and technology have given us powers we never had before, but not the ability to refashion our existence as we wish. Poetry and religion are more realistic guides to life. ~ John N. Gray

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. ~ Carl Bernstein

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.' ~ Javier Bardem

While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework. ~ Tony Abbott

At the stomp of boots on grass, I ease my eyes open. Aithinne leans down with a grin. "You didn't die. See? I told you it was easy." She offers me a hand and I take it, rising unsteadily to my feet.

"I've been bitten by some demonic woodland creature. My legs have been shredded by razor-sharp trees. We almost died. Easy? I'm getting you a damn dictionary."

I inspect my bleeding arm. The cut bisects five of the marks Lonnrach made, and I feel inexplicably proud of that. Good. Replace the old, bad memories with new badges. Start over.

"A dictionary," she repeats. "Is that a type of dessert?"

For the love of - "It's a type of book that explains the meaning of words."

"Oh. That sounds terribly dull. I was really hoping for dessert."

I'm hoping to end this rescue with my sanity intact. ~ Elizabeth May

Good or bad, we need change. Need the different. Our brains aren't wired for the same-old. ~ Vanessa Garden

all the bad things I do will go up in smoke
and so will I ~ Ikkyu

What are the politics of boredom? ~ Malcolm McLaren

I dont partake in assembly-line convenience. I dont say that killing things is bad while I hire people to kill things for me. ~ Ted Nugent

I don't think it's illegal. I don't think it's against the rules. It's as dangerous for me to have a toothpick in your mouth as it is to have a 200-pound man punch me in the face hard or try to kick me in the face. I'm more worried about that, to be honest. I don't have any superstitions. I won world titles with a toothpick. I defended it without a toothpick. It all depends. Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. It's a bad habit. I know I shouldn't do it, but it's fine. ~ Benson Henderson

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous. ~ Michel Foucault

When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer. ~ Rudolf Dreikurs

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. ~ Sinclair Lewis

Sometimes all our plans for life go to shit. You end up doing something you never dreamed of and you know what you do? You make the best out of it you can. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as you think it will be. It's what you make of it. ~ Nichole Chase

I cupped her pale cheek, lightly highlighted with a rosy blush, and kissed her tenderly, savoring the feel of her lips against mine. "You could come with me ? We could do this while we wait."
"I'm dreaming ... aren't I ?"
"Yeah, I'm sorry."
"Don't be. As far as dreams go, this one's not so bad. ~ S.C. Stephens

Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior. ~ Daya Kudari

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other. ~ Ehud Barak

Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either. ~ Wolfgang Beltracchi

As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life. ~ Cara Santana

If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing. ~ Philip K. Jason

Life is where you look, right? I mean look for the bad, you'll find more of the bad, look for the good, you'll find more of the good. ~ Jane Green

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects. ~ Gore Vidal

Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy - not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. ~ Douglas Adams

I don't do politics, I don't do religion, I don't do ethnic jokes. ~ Bill Engvall

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man. ~ Philo

I've known a lot of cops like him over the years. Veterans, usually. Older. They have experience, but they lack the humanity that would otherwise define them as good cops. The more they see, the less they feel. The less they care. They become cynical and bitter and apathetic. They give all cops a bad rap. ~ Linda Castillo

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. ~ Emmett Tyrrell

You always say the best leaders figure out how to turn a bad situation to their advantage. When life gives you gators, make Gatorade ~ Jeff Garvin

Byron published the first two cantos of his epic poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a romanticized account of his wanderings through Portugal, Malta, and Greece, and, as he later remarked, "awoke one morning and found myself famous." Beautiful, seductive, troubled, brooding, and sexually adventurous, he was living the life of a Byronic hero while creating the archetype in his poetry. He became the toast of literary London and was feted at three parties each day, most memorably a lavish morning dance hosted by Lady Caroline Lamb. Lady Caroline, though married to a politically powerful aristocrat who was later prime minister, fell madly in love with Byron. He thought she was "too thin," yet she had an unconventional sexual ambiguity (she liked to dress as a page boy) that he found enticing. They had a turbulent affair, and after it ended she stalked him obsessively. She famously declared him to be "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," which he was. So was she. ~ Walter Isaacson

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology. ~ Karen Armstrong

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment. ~ Laurie A. Helgoe