Susanna Clarke Quotes

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

In American politics, finger-pointing is an Olympic sport.

Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush.

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.

It is human natures to find scapegoats. When things are going badly people try and find someone to blame.

Liberals always blame the other guy.

It has become routine for national politicians to blame Europe. When something works, they claim it as their success. When something doesn't work, then Europe is to blame.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

The devil made me do it.

People are very apt to shift the Blame off themselves, and lay it upon others, when perhaps they themselves are as much or more to blame. The popular Cry is against Merchants and Traders, as if they had ruined the Country; or against those who are or have been in the Government

The United Nations exists to help countries solve their problems. If it helps the Americans solve theirs by blaming me, I'll be a scapegoat.

It is less important to find solutions than scapegoats.

Criticizing presidents for weakess is standard in Washington because the world is a messy place and when bad things happen, Washington and the President can easily be blamed for them.

Too often, it's the Washington way to hide, point fingers, and try to place blame on someone else.

The basic thing that made Trump popular is that he blamed others for the problems that we have in the United States. We have a problem. Let's face it. The typical income, median income, of a full-time male worker - and the workers who have a full-time job are the lucky ones - is at the same level it was 42 years ago. At the bottom, real wages in the United States are at the same level they were 60 years ago.

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.

If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual.

Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.

In attempting to understand 9/11, the first question asked by the world's elites - as exemplified by leading media and academics - was, 'What did America do to provoke such hatred?' Ten years later, the same people are still asking the same question. And it is as morally repulsive now as it was then. It was always on par with 'What did the Jews do to antagonize the Germans? Or 'What did blacks do to enrage lynch mobs?'

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.