All Quotes

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.
‐‐ Lindsey Graham

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
‐‐ Michael Bloomberg

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
‐‐ Max Lerner

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
‐‐ Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.
‐‐ Heather Wilson

The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
‐‐ Larry Hogan

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.
‐‐ John Fleming

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.
‐‐ Geraldine Ferraro

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The pollsters and pundits will keep trying to read voters' minds.
‐‐ Rick Scott

The pollution problem is always seen as someone who was doing something bad that has to be stopped. To me, pollution is doing something bad and good. People don't pollute because they like polluting. They do it because it's a cheaper way of producing something else.
‐‐ Ronald Coase

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.
‐‐ John Ratzenberger

The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.
‐‐ Bryan Q. Miller

The Polynesian guys are pretty strong without going to the gym.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.
‐‐ Paul Watson

The POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: 'Buy me! I'm going to save your life! I'm going to make you thin!' When you come to that POM bottle, it's like an oasis of calm.
‐‐ Lynda Resnick

The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
‐‐ John Burroughs

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.
‐‐ Mark Spitz

The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
‐‐ S. J. Rozan

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
‐‐ Holbrook Jackson

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.
‐‐ Charles Perrault

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
‐‐ George Mason

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
‐‐ Lord Byron

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
‐‐ Jacqueline Novogratz

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.
‐‐ Greg Boyle

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
‐‐ Esther Duflo

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
‐‐ Anatole France

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
‐‐ Plautus

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
‐‐ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
‐‐ Henry Walter Bates

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
‐‐ Gerrit Smith

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.
‐‐ Helen Mirren

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.
‐‐ Herman Gorter

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
‐‐ Thabo Mbeki

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
‐‐ Ann Landers

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
‐‐ Ernst Engel

The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
‐‐ Karl Pilkington

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The poorest guy in Miami lives better than much of the power elite in Havana.
‐‐ Joe Garcia

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
‐‐ Paul Farmer

The poorest people are the sweetest people.
‐‐ Denzel Washington