"When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line."

Politics, Giving, Party, Sound, Weather

31

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line."

Exlpore more Politics quotes

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Politics,

"I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Politics, Identity, Nation, Change

"Never give a good politician time to pray."

Stephen King, American Author

Politics, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Today

"Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written."

Stephen King, American Author

Politics, Power, Happiness, Inspirational, Truth

"Democracy passes into despotism."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Politics, Democracy

"Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

Politics, Democracy, Speech, Freedom, Law

"The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Politics, Government, Power, Abuse, People

"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Politics, States, United

"The gun is not out of Irish politics."

Ian Paisley, English Politician

Politics, Irish

"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Politics, Government, Corruption, Stupidity

Explore more quotes by Daniel Hannan

"A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money."

Money

"The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child."

Money

"You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit."

Economy

"Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news."

Media

"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt."

Debt

"Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate."

Home

"The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice."

Beauty

"When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line."

Politics