The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.
– Christopher Hitchens
Related Quotes:
- Life makes two promises, one, it promises to be good, and two, it promises to be bad. Cherish the good and be strong during the bad. – Meena Sarine
- Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests – Johannes Kepler
- Our lives are bound up with the lives of others. Our joy is bound up with the joy of others. – Ken Wytsma
- The problem with promises is that you’ve made one, it’s bound to be broken. – Bree Despain
- Lust promises you the world, and disappoints. Love promises you the universe, and delivers. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt. – Leslie Ludy
- The world promises you so much…and leaves you empty. God’s promises are for real and forever. – Beth Moore Jones
- Promises hold no real value, What matters the most is not to loose yourself while fulfilling promises for others. – Alamvusha
- You will write about that… you will write this and this and this… you gonna do that and that……Promises and promises… leaks in the holes! – Deyth Banger
- I think that people’s sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible. – Christopher Hitchens
- The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has-”from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness. – Christopher Hitchens
- The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity. – Christopher Hitchens
- The Postmodernists’ tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. – Christopher Hitchens
- Don’t buy into the campaign that people don’t like change. We are built for it. – Stacy Feiner
- From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour. – Sunday Adelaja
- The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently. – Harold Holzer
- The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. – Will Rogers
- Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters. – Harold Holzer
- Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect — they want to go with the winners. – Ralph Nader
- We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters. – Kenneth Eade
- Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- It’s an election year. We would prefer that voters didn’t use common sense. – Aaron Sorkin
- Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed. – Ken Follett
- If you have never truly questioned what you believe, I would question whether you truly believe it. – DA Simpson
- Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. – Christopher Hitchens
- Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return. – Christopher Hitchens
- Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East. – Christopher Hitchens
- The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can’t be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus. – Christopher Hitchens
- You don’t say ‘they all do it’ unless you know you’ve been doing it too. – Christopher Hitchens
- Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock. – Christopher Hitchens
- The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book. – Christopher Hitchens
- The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right. – Christopher Hitchens
- If someone tells me that I’ve hurt their feelings, I say, ‘I’m still waiting to hear what your point is. – Christopher Hitchens
- The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. – Christopher Hitchens
- The point of protesting about ‘moral equivalence’ is surely not to blur moral choices on -˜our side’. Is it? – Christopher Hitchens
- Don’t swallow your moral code in tablet form. – Christopher Hitchens
- I’ve always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don’t really respect anyone who falls for Camelot. – Christopher Hitchens
- When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that ‘he may tarry,’ we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen. – Christopher Hitchens