#politicians

I cover media people the way they cover politicians. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#i #media #media people #people #politicians

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#fault #great #our #politicians #something

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want. ↗

— Paul Weller

#i #i think #out #people #politicians

I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#business #california #career #career politicians #done

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#asked #hard #interviewed #media #politicians

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#art #artists #because #certain #closed

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#better way #complicated #dangerous #dangerously #facts

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#hands #least #monetary #money #over

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. ↗

— David Hockney

#deciding #down #enjoyable #exciting #i

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american #american politics #been #buy #economic