All Quotes

Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.
‐‐ Amity Shlaes

Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
‐‐ Frank Carlucci

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Polite conversation is rarely either.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
‐‐ Martha Beck

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
‐‐ P. T. Barnum

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
‐‐ Mary Wilson Little

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
‐‐ Mary Wilson Little

Politeness is organized indifference.
‐‐ Paul Valery

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
‐‐ Madame de Stael

Politeness is the flower of humanity.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
‐‐ Edwin Land

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.
‐‐ Bono

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
‐‐ David Ogilvy

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.
‐‐ Hal Sparks

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
‐‐ Hal Sparks

Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.
‐‐ John Desmond Bernal

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
‐‐ Brad Holland

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.
‐‐ Joe Haldeman

Political audiences are not fun.
‐‐ Lewis Black

Political battles are won when the rich favor them.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.
‐‐ Jane Ridley

Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?'
‐‐ Jeff MacNelly

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
‐‐ George Orwell

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.
‐‐ Parker Palmer

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.
‐‐ John O'Toole

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
‐‐ John Grierson

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun

Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.
‐‐ Glenn Beck

Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
‐‐ Don Rickles

Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses. It imposes a willful blindness, both at the macro level when unwilling to engage with radical Islamism or whatever you want to call it - if you're not willing to call it what it is - and at the micro level, at the street level.
‐‐ Pete Hegseth

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.
‐‐ George MacDonald Fraser

Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.
‐‐ Marcus Brigstocke

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.
‐‐ David Harsanyi

Political correctness kills discussion.
‐‐ Lars von Trier

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
‐‐ Barry Humphries

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.
‐‐ Mitch Landrieu

Political courage is not political suicide.
‐‐ Arnold Schwarzenegger