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Betsy: You gentlemen stand around and look tough while I do an astral reconnaissance. Fantomex: I confess to feeling inferior in the company of such a gifted telepath. But for you, Warren, to be so.. dependent. It must be emasculating. Warren: Oh yeah, it's a real hardship. Worst part is all the sex it leads to. Terrible stuff to endure.
— Rick Remender, Uncanny X-Force, Volume 2: Deathlok Nation
And to every man has been assigned a good and an evil angel; one assisting him and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin.
— Voltaire
The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers.
— Libba Bray, Going Bovine
Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel.
— Augustine of Hippo
I never heerd...nor read of nor see in picters, any angel in tights and gaiters...but...he's a reg'lar thoroughbred angel for all that.
— Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
He caught her bythe shoulders and gave her a hard little shake. "Do you think you're so charming in that silly little nightdress that I can't resist tumbling you? Do you think I have no pride when it comes to you?""B-b-but I—""Well, you're right," he shouted. "I don't!"With that, his lips came down on hers
— Teresa Medeiros, Once an Angel
Stay with me always, my sweet, my love . . . my Claire.
— Teresa Medeiros, Once an Angel
When he’d woken that morning to find her gone, he’d used the time alone to clean himself up in every sense of the word. Decisions about his future had been part of it, but there'd been more, too. Because in all the time they’d known one another he’d been completely unconcerned with his appearance. Now, however, he wanted to show her the man he truly was. More than that, the man she’d helped him become: healed, strong, capable. No longer in the shadows, but bathed in light. No longer in need of saving or protecting or anything. Except her.
— Angela B. Wade, Breaking Sea
Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
I’m by myself,” she said finally. “No family to speak of.”“I see.” Leaning forward again, he rested his arms against the table. “That must be rather difficult.”“Sometimes.”“And lonely, I imagine. Perhaps that is why you came here tonight?”Her jaw popped under the strain of maintaining decorum. “First: I said I was alone, not lonely. There's a big difference. And second: is that really why you think I'm here?”“I do not know what to think. I know you must have reasons for being here other than what you have already hinted at. Reasons important enough to make an otherwise intelligent woman not only bring food to a stranger so late at night, but also accept his invitation to sit inside an empty motel room without a second thought.”“Why don't you just call me a hooker while you're at it?
— Angela B. Wade, Breaking Sea
That last night,” she said quietly. “Why did you say you hoped you'd never see me again?”He hadn’t said it; it had been his last thought when he’d turned to leave. But he didn’t seem to notice the discrepancy as he looked at her now.“Because,” he began before faltering, his voice leaving on a sigh. His left hand reached to rake a path through his hair, scattering the inky thickness in all directions. “The more I learn of you, the more difficult it is to stay away.
— Angela B. Wade, Breaking Sea
I’m going to ask you a question,” I said. “And I want an answer this time, no dodging and no playing cryptic. Is the reason you’re leaving because you need to look for Nicholas, or because you want to get away from me?”Daniel looked me square in the eye, unblinking. “The first thing accomplishes the second, now doesn’t it?
— Angela B. Wade, Fallen River
Let twelve angels come into being to rule over chaos and the underworld." And look, from the cloud there appeared an angel whose face flashed with fire and whose appearance was defiled with blood. His name was Nebro, which means in translation 'rebel'; others call him Yaldabaoth.
— Rodolphe Kasser, The Gospel of Judas Together with the Letter of Peter to Phillip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos
He tasted like summertime - of wicked thunderstorms, fresh clover, and wild honeysuckle - and I had the sensation of falling, my stomach tumbling over and over again until calm finally reached in, rooting deep and stretching out to encompass everything: my mind, my body. And my soul - whatever that was. The same clean, almost scentless breeze whipped over us again, just like it had the first night we’d met, and I could physically feel one chapter of my life closing and another beginning.
— Angela B. Wade, Fallen River
I twisted my body, suddenly unable to stand his hands on me. “Do you really think I give a damn what you are? That anything else matters to me more than you, yourself? I don’t want you to stay because you think I need a protector, Daniel. I’ve been looking after myself for a very long time now, and I’ve done just fine. Dammit, have some faith in me.”“If I didn’t have faith in you, Sarah, I wouldn’t feel this way.
— Angela B. Wade, Fallen River
Daniel rested his hip on the counter, arms crossed, saying and offering nothing. “What? Are you thinking about sticking me with Luc permanently?” I laughed, the sound anxious. I waited for Daniel to laugh, too, at the sheer insanity of the idea. To reassure me he would never do something so cruel. But he stayed silent, something he was getting very good at. “You know something? Trying to have a discussion with you would work a lot better if you’d actually talk.” It was like riding on a merry-go-round, only without the merry. “You promised to stop keeping secrets from me, remember?
— Angela B. Wade, Fallen River
Then what’s the problem? You keep telling me she’s just a job. So, fine. The job’s done. You found her. You trained her. Now she has to do her part. She has to kill Dmitri. Whether she can survive the battle or not doesn’t matter, and it isn’t up to you to decide.” Luc got up from the swing and went to Daniel. “Listen, man, I’m trying to be a friend here. You’ve been down here so long you’re starting to think like one of them. Quit trying to grow a conscience and just finish what you started.
— Angela B. Wade, Fallen River
Taunt me at your peril, angel. I'm only a man. So before you tumble from heaven into my bed, be very sure it's what you want. Because once I've got you where I want you, nothing on earth or heaven will save you from me."Her mouth went dry as anticipation blazed through her body. "Then it's a good thing I don't want to be saved, isn't it?
— Sabrina Jeffries, Dance of Seduction
You may have a guardian angel,but I have a uzzi.You work out who's gunna come out on top!
— Anthony Hincks
Perhaps to bring good into the world, she needed to mix a little evil in it first.
— A.J. Flowers, Fallen to Grace
We fall, we fall together
— Nalini Singh, Archangel's Consort
One straying angel won’t make God tremble.
— Ada Palmer, Too Like the Lightning
devotion, admiration and trust. No words really needed for such feelings. As all creatures know of theseunique colors in the rainbow of Love....
— Leland Lewis, Angelic Tales of the Universe. Tale 17. Journey to Ancient India
I took that mint because I wanted to. I wanted to remember who I was. I wanted to remember my family. Most of all, I wanted to remember you. I wanted to remember what we are together, and how we got to that point. I wanted you to know I remember all of those precious moments. And if I don’t make it through this, I wanted to go knowing I love you. I wanted you to know I remember why I love you.
— Lindsay J. Pryor, Blood Bound
Please?” asked the girl.“I AM BUSY. I AM TRYING TO FIX CONTINENTAL DRIFT.”“I…didn’t know it was broken.”Uriel’s face became more animated, his speech faster.“IT HAS BEEN BROKEN FOR FIVE WEEKS AND FIVE DAYS. I THINK IT BROKE WHEN I RELOADED NEW ZEALAND FROM A BACKUP COPY, BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHY. MY SYNCHRONIZATION WAS IMPECCABLE AND THE CHANGE PROPAGATED SIMULTANEOUSLY ACROSS ALL SEPHIROT. I THINK SOMEBODY BOILED A GOAT IN ITS MOTHER’S MILK. IT IS ALWAYS THAT. I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO DO IT, BUT NOBODY LISTENS.
— Scott   Alexander, Unsong
You messed up with the wrong Angel. My weapon is a double-edge sword. One side of the blade represents Truth and the other represents Karma.
— Joshua De Vera Bautista
Angel!I whirled round. 'No! Don't you Angel me, Marcus Cohen! You've treated me like dirt-suspicious ever sinds we met. Testing me is the final straw. You've never thought about how your behaviour affects me-not once. You never understood that all I wanted was to be allowed to love you.
— Joss Stirling, Angel Dares
Feathers layered like dragons’ scales,their symmetry perfectly fledged,framing slender shoulders; sublime.A tumble of red tresses shimmer.Soft wings arch toward the sky.Once a cherub, she has grown.A young woman now, strong and lithe.Powerful with stormy eyes alight,windswept in her glory.An angel in body and spirit.- Winged Justice
— Mara Amberly, Feathers, Dreams and Faerie Wings: An Art and Poetry Collection
It?”“Her. Him. Whatever.”“Angel is neither man nor woman. Men and women came later.
— Matt Wallace, Envy of Angels
You tempt the devil,” he whispered then laid his head down and sighed. “Angels always do.
— Bijou Hunter, Damaged and the Knight
I see you as Lily. I see you for who you are, even though you don't.” -Julian
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Unchained
She is an angel, how bad could it be?”“Ask the first born of Israel when the Pharaoh pissed off Moses. Ask the salty residents of Sodom. Ask anyone who was not Noah or a fish once the Flood rolled in.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
He could see himself selling himself as a compelling mutation, a young god, proud to the point of sexy arrogance of his anatomical deviation: ninety percent thriving muscled man-flesh and ten percent glorious blindingly white angel
— Michael Cunningham, A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried, "our eyes fail before the glory of thy countenance.
— Aleister Crowley, The Best of the Equinox, Volume I: Enochian Magick
Anyone can have a friend, but the one that would walk in a storm to find you is all you will ever need.
— Shannon L. Alder
I landed on my side, my hip taking the brunt of the fall. It burned and stung from the hit, but I ignored it and struggled to sit up quickly. There really was no point in hurrying so no one would
— Cambria Hebert, #Hater
God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, as Reenie used to say. Could it be that Myra is my designated guardian angel? Or is she instead a foretaste of Purgatory? And how do you tell the difference?
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
An angel is an empty comic book thought bubble. The content has to be filled in by the viewer.
— Chris F. Westbury, The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even
My 'people skills' are 'rusty.' Pardon me but I have spent the last year as a multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent.
— Castiel
The first thing that came to mind was an angel. Her hair flowing and shiny. Her legs dangling, long and smooth. She looked perfect where she was, like a painting.And then I remembered that Satan was also an angel.
— Penelope Douglas, Until You
You’re mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won’t let anything change that.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Finale
The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un texto implicito: Seleccion
I opened the window to let some fresh air into the room and was surprised to see that the rain was not just falling, but that it formed an actual wall of water, as if the whole sky were falling. While I was staring at the strange phenomenon, the form of an angel began to appear before me… It was Matariel, the Angel of Rain, whom I had not seen since my descent and who on this occasion appeared in a shiny, blue-grey form. She was only an arm’s length away and stared straight at me. She looked like a young woman floating on enormous wings -not a single drop of rain touched her. The smell of the cool rain swept the room as Matariel began talking to me. She never once moved her lips, but her every word was clearly audible in my head.
— A.O. Esther, Elveszett lelkek
I was now blinded by a flood of light, but when I realised how many countless numbers of angels were imprisoned in Bardo’s dismal prison, it took my breath away. “Gabriel!” I shouted to my leader with all my might, but he gave no sign of hearing me. “Gabriel!” I said, trying again, and it seemed that the handsome face reacted just a little. At that moment, a band of goblins reached the hall with a terrible ruckus. I had to flee. I grabbed the chains binding Gabriel and cried one last time . “Gabriel!” …the angel’s emerald green eyes looked up. He gazed deep into my eyes, . “Please forgive me,” I whispered. My chest felt like it would burst with pain from the guilt burning inside me. “I swear I’ll atone for my sin and get you out of here!” . Gabriel gave no reply, but just looked at me sadly. I would have been less tortured if he had screamed at me or come at me, but he simply let me sink into my guilt.
— A.O. Esther, Elveszett lelkek
After a while I noticed that the pendant heart-shaped I wore around my neck, as every angel does, had begun to pulsate with blue light. I knew that this was thanks to Raphael and that he was sending healing energy for Joshua. I took my necklace off and gently put it round his neck so as not to wake him. The blue light grew stronger and started to flicker – then, drawing circles on the sick boy’s skin, it vanished around the level of his heart chakras. As blue light pervaded his entire body from head to toe, I could feel his burning skin slowly cool and his breathing became even.
— A.O. Esther, Elveszett lelkek
Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.
— Thomas Aquinas
Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today.
— Joss Whedon
I’m of the camp that if an angel tells you one thing, and a man in ruby slippers tells you another, you go with the angel.
— Sean Patrick Brennan, The Papal Visitor
The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
Look deep inside yourself and find your inner angel. Your inner angel will show you how to drop the anchor of emotional burden and fly. Your inner angel knows where to find light to chase away the darkness. Your inner angels helps you balance when the world pushes and pulls. And, most important of all, your inner angel has a wingspan that is broad enough to lift the hearts of those in pain.
— Emily March, Lover's Leap
Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him like the wings of an electric angel.
— Alexis  Hall, Glitterland
Helping others is the oxygen of paradise.
— J.F. Anstead
ALATE POSTULATEWhen angels were invented, flight required wings
— Kamil Ali, The Initiates
The only way Father is going to be upset in this case, is with the way the two of you are behaving toward one another. We are family, whether you believe it or not. Your lack of faith in Lucifer is what will do the damage in the long run. It has nothing at all to do with the time I spend with him.
— Melyssa Winchester, Stairway to Heaven
He tries to get close to her because he wants to know what her glow feels like. She’s alone on the dance floor and even though she’s dancing, there’s a kind of sadness lurking about her, like her heart is somewhere else. Roman doesn’t think he has ever seen a woman look this beautiful. It’s not just her halo either. Even in that one brief moment Roman feels it. He feels her become a part of his life. Her halo is glowing a little less bright now, and Roman doesn’t know why. But he wants to find out.
— Sam  Hunter, The Devil's Breath
She has a smile that grows slowly and then shines, like an angel’s smile.
— Philippa Gregory, The Kingmaker's Daughter
I never believed that angels exist, until I met you.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
Like a new creature, maybe an angel, you have shocked everyone with such beauty.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
— Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
I'm sorry if me being turned on turns you on.
— Kirsty Moseley, The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window
He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
You are my angel and my damnation
—  in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
Finally,” Lilith said, smiling warmly at her. “A reasonable angel.”“I’m no angel,” Eleanore quietly insisted.“Yes, you are,” said every man in the room.
— Heather Killough-Walden, Avenger's Angel
Every man sees his wife like an angel
—  until he gets a better one.
It can't be anyone but youI always wondered whyA million "thank you"'s piled upAnd before I knew it, it was loveI was in love with you
— Kozue Chiba, Hitoribocchi wa Samishikute - ひとりぼっちはさみしくて #3
Are we safe from human exposure? I don't want the owners to find a busted-up angel and a buzzed vampire lurking in their shed and freak out.
— Brandy Nacole, Broken Faith
It can't be anyone but youI understand the reason nowLike an angel gently descending,You taught me the meaning of living on earthWhispering,"I want you to protect me,"You supported my heart
— Kozue Chiba, ひとりぼっちはさみしくて #1 [Hitoribocchi wa Samishikute]
The memory of the previous nights fun and games rose again. Hell this whole week had been weird. With the attack at the boat launch being the shit flavored ice cream on top of the crazy pie.
— Diana Rowland, White Trash Zombie Apocalypse
With a new found confidence, Briston comes alive. "Then we have to do something. We need to call the police, or the swat team, maybe the military.""Yeah, and why we're at it, why don't we send a prayer up to Heaven and tell the other angels to go ahead and take our names off the eternal guest list.
— Brandy Nacole, Broken Faith
We were together because we were addicted to each other. I was never as intoxicated as I was when we were happy together, and I knew it was the same for him. We were putting ourselves through the wringer for those moments of perfection between us, but they were so tenuous that only our stubbornness, determination and love kept us fighting for them.
— Sylvia Day, Reflected in You
sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know
— Al Pacino
You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you."He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in an instant. "Why? I'm all those things and more."I shook my head. Ian was more proud of his depravity than anyone I'd met, but if he helped me pull Bones out from under four bespelled vampires and one demonically-enchanced vamp, I'd shower him with prostitutes and porn while swearing he was an angel.
— Jeaniene Frost, The Bite Before Christmas
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
Alex grabbed our things from the bike and bought them inside; then he fastened the tent closed, securing us in."Come here, babe, I'll keep you warm.
— L.A. Weatherly
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mitch thought she looked like an angel might—if the angel had fallen very hard into a very naughty position.
— Lauren Stewart, Hyde
If I weren't out of my mind at this second, I would've sworn he nuzzled my temple.
— Piper Shelly, Her Game, His Rules
What are they fighting about?” Saba listened for a moment and closed her eyed in frustration. “They’re arguing scripture.” “Your brother is arguing scripture? With an angel?
— Dawn Jayne, Uprising
Oh yes. You’ve done a marvelous job of succeeding at failure.
— Laura Kreitzer, Fallen Legion
Choices are exhibited through the notions of free will,temptation challenges them.
— Crimson "C.L. Williams"
Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
— Ellen Hopkins, Burned
An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.
— Sara Quin
I saw my first angel.And it was you.
— Tegan Quin
Give me this moment," Kahl said to me. I glanced up at him and couldn't fathom the depths of his taunting amber irises."You have it." "Be my angel... Leave with me," he whispered. In that moment, when thoughts of the boy I loved left me and fissures of pure bliss consumed me, I knew I was in trouble.
— Nadège Richards, Deceiving Destiny
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
— George R.R. Martin, Ace in the Hole
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician
— Charlie Chaplin
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. 
— Gore Vidal
He's an honest politician--he stays bought.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
— Ambrose Bierce
No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.
— Adolf Hitler
Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil President Lyndon Johnson mentioned to Secretary of State Dean Rusk that he should ask DeGaulle about the Americans buried in France. Dean implied in his answer that that DeGaulle should not really be asked that in the meeting at which point President Johnson then told Secretary of State Dean Rusk:"Ask him about the cemeteries Dean!"That made it into a Presidential Order so he had to ask President DeGaulle.So at end of the meeting Dean did ask DeGaulle if his order to remove all U.S. troops from French soil also included the 60,000+ soldiers buried in France from World War I and World War II.DeGaulle, embarrassed, got up and left and never answered.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
— Thomas Sowell
NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?
— Bill Maher
Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what’s happened.
— Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.
— Craig Ferguson
God, you don't just barge in on my father, and definitely not my mother."No way. You check with their personal secretaries first. Check out their moods. Then you make an appointment to slip in. There are basic things you learn when your parents run a planet.
— Mike Shepherd, Mutineer
People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians. Statesmen are leaders who uphold what is right regardless of the popularity of the position. Statesmen speak out to achieve good for their people, not to win votes. Statesmen promote the general good rather than regional or personal self-interest.
— Henry T. Blackaby, Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda
Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.
— Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
All they do is warm their seats for their long tenures and eventually even their seats get dilapidated with the amount of money they hog in illegally and the only way it comes out is by tilting their huge pot-bellied frames to one side and emitting poisonous gases that not only depreciate their beloved seats but also the nation as a whole and then they shout ‘Global Warming.’ Hallelujah!
— Faraaz Kazi
he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....
— Peggy Noonan
How strange it is that the house of these hedonic stalwarts is filled with all the luxuries of life, right from plasma televisions to Swiss bank cheque books. So how will they notice the tonnes of food grains rotting in the northern belt?
— Faraaz Kazi
The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don’t vote.
— Andrew Vachss, Terminal
The Nazi salute was performed by public officials in the USA from 1892 through 1942. The researcher Dr. Rex Curry asks 'What happened to the photographs and films of the American Nazi salute performed by federal, state, county, and local officials?' Those photos and films are rare because people don't want to know the truth. Public officials in the USA who preceded the German socialist (Hitler) and the Italian socialist (Mussolini) were sources for the stiff-armed salute (and robotic chanting) in those countries and other foreign countries.
— Micky Barnetti, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Swastikas, Nazis, Pledge of Allegiance Lies Exposed by Rex Curry and Francis & Edward Bellamy
United Nations needs reform to connect with world community beyond the boundary of high-level bureaucrats and politicians through cyberspace and other means to put itself at the heart of worldwide public needs, hopes, and fears.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
Politicians and low profiles rarely went together.
— Marshall Thornton, Little Boy Afraid
Politicians will always be honest.To themselves!
— Anthony T. Hincks
A politician is worse than the arsonist, for he lights the fire and then vows if elected he will supply more fire trucks.
— Anthony P. Mauro, Sr.
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
— Angela Davis
Wc What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
— Angela Davis
If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved.
— Robert A. Heinlein, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs
[politicians are] like toddlers arguing over who gets the candy, but with a better vocabulary and less whacking each other with toys.
— Garon Whited, Knightfall: Book Four of the Nightlord series
Why do politicians lie?Because people like being lied to.Just look at any political rally.P.S. You're great!
— Alan VanMeter, Star Girl
You can shape people how ever you like it, but first you have to gain their Trust
— "Beta" Metani' Marashi
Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses.
— Amit Abraham
The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds.
— Nana Awere Damoah
The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the stick entirely understandable.
— Gail Carriger, Prudence
Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest of all faults in a politician, and in any leader, is the failure to recognize that charisma has nothing to do with ability, excellence, or goodness. In fact, charisma enables far more the evils of the universe than great and worthy accomplishments, Give me pedestrian accomplishments over charisma any day.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr., Solar Express
... By disarming, you at once give offense, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either as doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.
— Stendhal
... On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate you no fortress will save you...
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Successful politicians are people who know how to make us think well of them without our realizing that that’s what they’re doing
—  they know how to make us admire and trust them.
Sound bytes. Catch phrases. Sales pitches. Words. All lexical legitimizing. ‘A rose by any other name…’ he said. In the end it’s all propaganda.
— J.A. Willoughby, The Promised Land
Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can’t bother about where they’re going.
— Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.
— Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard
The Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure.
— Dana Perino
I love California
—  I practically grew up in Phoenix.
We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.
— Howard Zinn, Just War
As a result, amongst working-class Americans, government is now generally seen as being made up of two sorts of people: "politicians," who are blustering crooks and liars but can at least occasionally be voted out of office, and "bureaucrats," who are condescending elitists almost impossible to uproot.
— David Graeber
I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
If Lincoln were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave.
— Gerald R. Ford
Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn't say it out loud, though.
— Alexander Gordon Smith, The Fury
Politicians are crooks!
— Kenneth Eade
I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.
— Kenneth Eade, Terror on Wall Street, a Financial Metafiction Novel
Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.
— Kenneth Eade, Terror on Wall Street, a Financial Metafiction Novel
Donald Trump is nuts, his party is chock full of nuts too, and that is bad news for Americans with a nut allergy.
— Steve Merrick
In terms of our elected officials, I think we need to ask...: How far should we go with our need to know before we completely veer off into the personal and the private and leave behind any chance of having a legitimate debate or discussion or discourse about the issues at hand?
— John             Lewis, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Trophy hunters are like politicians, they both like to pull the trigger from the comfort of a safe distance.
— J. Bartell, The 231 Club: My Ten Year Journey From Therapist to CIA Courier and Sanctioned Kills - A True Story
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
— Doug Larson
Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter
Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them. . . . mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and being privileged enough not to have to witness them.
— Javier Marías, Los enamoramientos
Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: “I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.
— David Halberstam
Outside the box" is an overused cliche which goes nowhere near far enough. In fact, there are so many politicians and salesmen thinking outside the box these days that I am convinced that all of their boxes are completely empty!
— Lance Greenfield
Most politicians would love to lead politically blind people.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Peace is just an illusion created by those in power
— Tom Collin
Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I can stomach just about anything… After all, I can deal with politicians… I don’t have any problem not puking on them! —Debra Wright, KNUT Reporter
— Ray Palla, SIMPLE TRIPLE STANDARD
The politicians looked after the mandarins. The mandarins looked after the central bankers and the regulators. (The governor of the Central Bank was paid more in 2008 than the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, as was the chief executive of the Financial Regulator.) The Central Bankers looked after the bankers. The bankers looked after IBEC. And IBEC looked after the government. The circle of oligarchs was watertight.
— Shane Ross
[John Edwards] is the man that Rielle Hunter called 'real and authentic,' which tells us all we need to know about her mental abilities. This is why she can't figure out why he picked her. He could have had a multitude of sweet young things but he chose a 42-year-old who is one bleach job away from turning into one big split end, because his tumescent ego demands that he be the pretty one.
— Florence King
Perhaps when a nation goes through a period of upheaval, those who should become politicians, do.
— Minae Mizumura
Life has taught me to release my ears from hearing negativity, destructive remarks, false rumors and stupid ways. I learn to open my eyes and my mind to think ahead of my life, to learn more of who I am.
— Auliq Ice
Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter, and something to crap on.
— P.J. O'Rourke
Our archaeological ancestry lost hair while growing sweat glands to reduce panting in the hot African sun. One outcome evolved the origin of our speech. Another conquered our ability to shut the hell up and listen. Now? Politicians grunting "On the Origin of Speeches" past one another.
— Brian Spellman
Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.
— Raheel Farooq
In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil on the face of the earth was unbending certainty, unshakable orthodoxy.
— Howard Fast, The Dinner Party
The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory out
— Kevin Hearne, Tricked
Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won't listen to you at any range.
— Auliq Ice
Let us hope that Lysenko's success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another reminder to the world of how quickly and easily a science can be corrupted when ignorant political leaders deem themselves competent to arbitrate scientific disputes.
— Martin Gardner
With good morality first candidates you'll get bad candor, bad ethics, bad loyalty and bad morality - lastly bad odor will surface to save the day if you maintain good optimism like I do.
— Brian Spellman
Most Politicians Are The Whores at The Establishment Party, But We're The Ones Getting Fucked
— Dean Cavanagh
The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.
— Terry Deary
He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened by the complicated ethical ambiguities which puzzle intellectuals, and had long ago decided that the world was a mean son-of-a-bitch in which only the most cunning and ruthless can survive. He was also as kind as was possible for one holding that ultra-Darwinian philosophy; and he genuinely loved children and dogs, unless they were on the site of something that had to be bombed in the National Interest. He still retained some sense of humor, despite the burdens of his almost godly office, and, although he had been impotent with his wife for nearly ten years now, he generally achieved orgasm in the mouth of a skilled prostitute within 1.5 minutes. He took amphetamine pep pills to keep going on his grueling twenty-hour day, with the result that his vision of the world was somewhat skewed in a paranoid direction, and he took tranquilizers to keep from worrying too much, with the result that his detachment sometimes bordered on the schizophrenic; but most of the time his innate shrewdness gave him a fingernail grip on reality.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
— Gore Vidal
Why should anyone be surprised at what the men "in power" are capable of --didn't every mad-Judas one of them begin his career by slowly & brutally strangling an innocent child?
— Kenneth Patchen, Collected Poems
The American people, and the citizens of all Western nations, have the right to know about every single thing their representatives do on their behalf. After all, elected officials are merely representing those who hold the true power (the people).
— James Morcan, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
There must be a lot of duplication in our country’s laws," said Dukhi. "Every time there are elections, they talk of passing the same ones passed twenty years ago. Someone should remind them they need to apply the laws.""For politicians, passing laws is like passing water," said Narayan. "It all ends down the drain.
— Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.
— Masuji Ibuse, Lieutenant Lockeast, And Other Stories
PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars.”“Ah!” Manannan’s expression lit with comprehension. “They are politicians?
— Kevin Hearne, Trapped
Politicians are the sole cause of our incurable social eczema
— Munia Khan
Why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Character assassination of a politician is a victimless crime
— Dean Cavanagh
I wish I knew how to quit you, political jokers and pathological liars...
— Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.
— Gregor Collins, The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann
That demon will trick you faster than a politician with a liquor license.
— Erik Bundy, Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves
For people have four shadows
—  four politicians have twenty shadows or hundred or more! One person with many fake faces!
Do you know the one about how politics is show business for the ugly? State politics is show business for ugly people who can't remember their lines.
— James Browning, The Fracking King
They lives rough, and risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks. What means this? Politicians!
— Sam Houssami
The problem with all politicians is that they are human.
— Steven Ivy - Attorney Entrepreneur
I wish I knew how to quit you, political jokers
— Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
To see the farm is to leave it.
— Stefan Molyneux, The Handbook of Human Ownership: A Manual for New Tax Farmers
The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.
— Alex Scarrow, Afterlight
Politicians are judged by what they say and they don't do
— Válgame, Zori 2ª Parte
People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent
— Halldór Laxness, The Atom Station
Politicians are played by what they say and they don't do
— Válgame, Zori 2ª Parte
On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The wolf reintroduction has gone so well that, somewhat ironically, the wolves are now threatened by their own success. Indeed, virtually all the conditions for strong public support that were evident in the early years of the program remain intact. The scientific and economic studies cited above support the original predictions of benefits, and agency officials remain committed to the policy. Yet some political actors remain hostile to the program. As NPS management assistant Sacklin said, "No amount of good science will stop a politician.
— William R. Lowry, Repairing Paradise: The Restoration of Nature in America's National Parks
A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority.
— Woodrow Wilson
I wish politicians the world over would stop claiming credit for economic growth that happens despite them, not because of them. Grow up...
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
politicians often had the knack of seeming to know everyone intimately. Either they had remarkable memories, or their secretaries reminded them efficiently.
— Ken Follett, Winter of the World
How is it that we can punish women who are paid by politicians yet allow freedom and forgiveness to the politicians who pay them? The irony of the situation is that if we allow Sptizer’s deep pockets to buy his way back into our homes and hearts, then it’s not young women he hired who are whores, it’s the people of New York.
— Valerie Baber
...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.
— Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion
He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.
— Ross Macdonald, The Chill
Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. That’s why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. It’s easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the point of a conviction
— Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy
The flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has never left us and it is essential that we train our ear to detect its false notes because in our case the flute is being played by the rats.
— Dimitris Mita
Half of the people lie with their lips
—  the other half with their tears
Never give a good politician time to pray.
— Stephen King, Under the Dome
However...," Satan said.Bick sighed. "However, I didn't count on the growing interference of lawyers, regulators, bureaucrats and politicians into my business. I swear it seems that every year they stick their noses into more and more."Lucifer chuckled. "Sorry about that-I outdid myself there.
— R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot
... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always. There was no way they could not fail us - they were human, and so were we.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.
— George Packer
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
— Alain de Botton
Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
— Vernor Vinge, The Children of the Sky
The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his associates...Moreover, since politicians are divided into rival groups, they aim at similarly dividing the nation, unless they have the good fortune to unite it in war against some other nation.
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.
— Henry David Thoreau, Slavery in Massachusetts
A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.
— Henry David Thoreau, Slavery in Massachusetts
The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who perceive the need of cooperation are powerless. Until education has been directed for a generation into new channels, and the Press has abandoned incitements to hatred, only harmful policies have any chance of being adopted in practice by our present political methods. But there is no obvious means of altering education and the Press until our political system is altered. From this dilemma there is no issue by means of ordinary action, at any rate for a long time to come. The best that can be hoped, it seems to me, is that we should, as many of us as possible, become political skeptics, rigidly abstaining from belief in the various attractive party programmes that are put before us from time to time.
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.
— Juan Cole