Top 23 Quotes About Town Politics
#1. There is a cannibalism that's loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into this town and do something good for this country and then they get hammered away even though they're trying to do the right thing.
David Gergen
#2. P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.
Paulo Freire
#3. When asked my advice as I stroll through the town,
"A good lady knows how to take a political assassin down.
Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
#5. A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.
Brenda Holloway
#6. A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night.
Janet Fitch
#7. I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.
Peter MacKay
#8. The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.
John Wilmot
#9. People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of ugliness. I think that if people can recognize that you can actually help and change that ugliness, then you'll feel a lot better about yourself as well, and that does create a certain amount of happiness.
Sheryl WuDunn
#10. I think growing up in a small town is a good foundation for anyone who decides to enter politics. You get to know people as individuals, not as blocs or members of special interest groups.
Ronald Reagan
#11. I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.
Jean Chretien
#12. 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
#13. I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.
Donald T. Regan
#14. With the way I worked, a client can give me everything they know about something, and then I go away and come back with advertising that knocks them out of their chair. They finally understand what kind of a company they are.
George Lois
#15. One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#16. Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
Elisabeth Elliot
#17. I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans.
Carroll Bryant
#18. Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.
Martti Ahtisaari
#20. If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Barry Goldwater
#21. Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.
Bill Kurtis
#22. Privacy, self-reliance, choice -- all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that other core American value, the value of community. And we must redefine community more broadly to include not just our street or our tract, but our town, our metropolis, our region.
William Fulton
#23. The Echo was a rag specializing in yard sales, area sports, and town politics. The residents scanned those things, he supposed, but mostly bought the paper for the obituaries and Police Beat. Everybody liked to know which of their neighbors had died or been jailed.
Stephen King