Isaac Asimov Quotes

We critique all politicians who are in power, whenever there's a talking point.

That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did.

No sitting administration likes to see itself studied; no administration welcomes investigations.

All politicians will have to change to be worthy of our people.

Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.

We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.

I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

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It is incorrect to say there have been no reforms at all in Burma; there have of course been reforms, but we still need to do more for the people. To become a democratic society we have to continually be reforming.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

Politicians such as Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich along with talking heads such as Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Anne Coulter are not the problem, they are symptomatic of a much more disturbing assault on critical thought, if not rational thinking itself.

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money from one source and spending it for another. But the thing for the school people to do is that if the politicians are going to steal, make them steal for the schools.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking.

I'm very sorry if I offended anybody. I'd like to put it in the past now. What's done is done. I regret it.

I've always been a reformer all the time I served in public office, and remain a reformer in Ohio, but I also know how to get things done. And I think it's important that, while we acknowledge the anxieties that Americans have, I think it's also important we realize at the end of the day, we need to have somebody who knows how to land a plane, and I've landed quite a few planes.