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Politicians often lie. Votes: 3

Paul Weyrich

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Politicians exploit economic illiteracy. Votes: 3

Walter E. Williams

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Politicians don't create jobs. Votes: 3

Jamie Whyte

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Politicians are leaches, mostly. Votes: 3

Tibor R. Machan

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Politicians cannot alter trends. Votes: 3

Harold Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson

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Politicians neither love nor hate. Votes: 3

John Dryden

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Politicians don't like empowered individuals. Votes: 3

Neal Boortz

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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels. Votes: 3

Rudyard Kipling

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Politicians look for interests not people Votes: 3

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Politicians never keep all their promises. Votes: 3

Michael Moore

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Politicians are better liars than writers. Votes: 3

Shan Sa

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Politicians are fond of criticizing others. Votes: 3

Martin Winterkorn

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Politicians need a film appreciation course. Votes: 3

Anurag Kashyap

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Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic. Votes: 3

Douglas Alexander

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Politicians really worry about being politically correct. Votes: 3

Nikki Sixx

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Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims. Votes: 3

Donald J. Boudreaux

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Politicians are simply reflections of the public. Votes: 3

Wes Jackson

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Politicians love change, but of details only. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted. Votes: 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating. Votes: 3

Andre Brie

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Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil. Votes: 3

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not. Votes: 3

Robert Jackson Bennett

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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. Votes: 3

William Westmoreland

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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. Votes: 3

William C. Westmoreland

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Politicians don't really bring up religion in England. Votes: 3

John Oliver

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Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold. Votes: 3

Walter E. Williams

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age. Votes: 3

Mark Twain

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Politicians take something out of context to create problems. Votes: 3

Anurag Kashyap

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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. Votes: 3

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society. Votes: 3

Jacob K. Javits

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Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies. Votes: 3

Paul Keating

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Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure. Votes: 3

Clint Eastwood

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Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes. Votes: 3

David Titley

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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. Votes: 3

Lord Chesterfield

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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Votes: 3

Arthur C. Clarke

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Politicians are masters of sounding like they agree with you. Votes: 3

Mike Cloud

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Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures. Votes: 3

Angela Merkel

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Politicians are no different than the rest of the public. Votes: 3

Scott McCallum

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Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one. Votes: 3

Will Rogers

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Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine. Votes: 3

Kid Rock

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Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog. Votes: 3

Bennett Cerf

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Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face. Votes: 3

Clare Boothe Luce

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Politicians are the sole cause of our incurable social eczema Votes: 3

Munia Khan

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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked Votes: 3

Elbert Hubbard

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Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after Votes: 3

Emma Goldman

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Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion. Votes: 3

Will Rogers

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Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day. Votes: 3

Rob Delaney

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Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket. Votes: 3

Robert Breault

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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. Votes: 3

John Bolton

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Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security. Votes: 3

Heather Brooke

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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. Votes: 3

Mark Twain

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Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers. Votes: 3

Greg Perry

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Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion. Votes: 3

Daron Malakian

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Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure. Votes: 3

L. Neil Smith

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Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest. Votes: 3

Alice Rivlin

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Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty. Votes: 3

Neal Boortz

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Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. Votes: 3

Robert Towne

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Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions. Votes: 3

Marjane Satrapi

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Bureaucrats and Politicians are different people, work of Bureaucrats makes us hate Politicians. Votes: 3

Amit Kalantri

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Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda. Votes: 3

Leonard Mlodinow

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Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted. Votes: 3

Daniel J. Mitchell

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Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense. Votes: 3

Donald J. Boudreaux

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Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow. Votes: 3

David R. Brower

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Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other. Votes: 3

Antony Beevor

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Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new. Votes: 3

Peter Schuyler

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Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe. Votes: 3

Michael Foot

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Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. Votes: 3

Enoch Powell

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Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers. Votes: 3

George R. R. Martin

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Politicians generally respond to who is going to help them get elected and re-elected. Votes: 3

Michael Bloomberg

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Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected. Votes: 3

John Templeton

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Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it. Votes: 3

Wendell Phillips

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Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business. Votes: 3

Adi Godrej

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Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books. Votes: 3

Natalie Maines

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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician. Votes: 3

Victor Pinchuk

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Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long. Votes: 3

Andrew Cuomo

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Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely Votes: 3

Will Rogers

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Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation. Votes: 3

Linda Lingle

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Politicians are not afraid of their mistakes, they are afraid their mistakes will not succeed Votes: 3

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think. Votes: 3

Abdus Salam

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Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens. Votes: 3

Paul Collier

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Politicians saying one thing and doing another, celebrities though are some of the worst offenders. Votes: 3

Eric Bolling

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Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches. Votes: 3

John Sununu

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Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Votes: 3

Charley Reese

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Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No. Votes: 3

Douglas Brinkley

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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns. Votes: 3

Tadashi Yanai

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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination. Votes: 3

Andrew Lang

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Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not. Votes: 3

Jon Kyl

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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion. Votes: 3

Gary Johnson

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Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians. Votes: 3

George S. Patton

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Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with. Votes: 3

Milton Friedman

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Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.' Votes: 3

Douglas Brinkley

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Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously. Votes: 3

Mo Rocca

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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. Votes: 3

Nikita Khrushchev

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Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. Votes: 3

George Carlin

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Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury. Votes: 3

Will Rogers

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With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.' Votes: 3

John Ridley

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Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. Votes: 3

P. J. O'Rourke

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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country? Votes: 3

Cal Thomas

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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust. Votes: 3

Zac Goldsmith

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Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office. Votes: 3

Beverly LaHaye

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Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good. Votes: 3

Walter E. Williams

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Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws. Votes: 3

Toni Servillo

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Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people. Votes: 3

Donald Trump

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Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low. Votes: 3

Henry Louis Gates

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Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved. Votes: 3

Jonathan Powell

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Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. Votes: 3

James Bovard

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Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money. Votes: 3

Joseph Sobran

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Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people. Votes: 3

Elie Wiesel

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Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local. Votes: 3

Tom Golisano

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Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen. Votes: 3

Paul Samuelson

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Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters. Votes: 3

David Mitchell

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More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark. Votes: 3

Pete Hamill

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. Votes: 3

John Quinton

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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. Votes: 1

David Hockney

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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events? Votes: 1

Rita Mae Brown

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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. Votes: 1

Henrik Ibsen

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Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries. Votes: 1

Margaret Sanger

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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. Votes: 1

George Will

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Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there. Votes: 1

Ron Paul

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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. Votes: 1

John F. Kennedy

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If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone. Votes: 1

Craig Ferguson

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Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well. Votes: 1

Michael N. Castle

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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers. Votes: 1

Nas

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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. Votes: 1

Steve Allen

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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. Votes: 1

Anthony Trollope

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Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say. Votes: 1

Thierry Henry

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Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. Votes: 1

Ray Davies

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Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so. Votes: 1

Kay Redfield Jamison

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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet. Votes: 1

Afrika Bambaataa

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Stanley Crouch

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Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors. Votes: 1

Yochai Benkler

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The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that. Votes: 1

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. Votes: 1

Harry Browne

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Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. Votes: 1

Maya Angelou

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It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before. Votes: 1

Luc Besson

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I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly. Votes: 1

Vivienne Westwood

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How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science. Votes: 1

Nicholas Stern

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People don't like politicians. Votes: 0

Jesse Ventura

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Lawyers are natural politicians. Votes: 0

Clarence Darrow

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I think all politicians lie. Votes: 0

Nancy Grace

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Wit puts politicians at risk. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Most politicians are not authentic. Votes: 0

Simon Sinek

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Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. Votes: 0

James Herbert

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Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs. Votes: 0

Kevin Barrett

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I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians. Votes: 0

Kid Rock

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Fear is the politicians dance partner. Votes: 0

Penn Jillette

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He loved politicians - even Republicans. Votes: 0

Margaret Truman Daniel

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I don't like politicians who vacillate. Votes: 0

Eliot Spitzer

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The Tea Party doesn't like politicians. Votes: 0

Jim DeMint

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Never judge a country by its politicians. Votes: 0

Alfred Hitchcock

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All politicians are to some extent salesmen. Votes: 0

George Will

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I can't give political advice to politicians. Votes: 0

Glenn Hubbard

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Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas. Votes: 0

John Sununu

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I believe politicians should always remain realistic. Votes: 0

Eduard Shevardnadze

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The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians. Votes: 0

Timothy Noah

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Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians. Votes: 0

Sonia Rumzi

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Great leaders passed away, politicians made their way." Votes: 0

Yssubramanyam

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. Votes: 0

Angela Davis

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Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians Votes: 0

Tariq Ramadan

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Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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Our leaders are stupid. Our politicians are stupid. Votes: 0

Donald Trump

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People hate politicians. And I can understand why. Votes: 0

Alexei Navalny

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the militay dont start wars, politicians start wars Votes: 0

William C. Westmoreland

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90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name. Votes: 0

Henry A. Kissinger

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Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves. Votes: 0

Richard Cobden

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America has the best politicians money can buy. Votes: 0

Will Rogers

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There are, believe it or not, good politicians. Votes: 0

Daniel Keys Moran

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Like all successful politicians I married above myself. Votes: 0

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur. Votes: 0

Katharine Hepburn

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Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive. Votes: 0

Gerhard Schroder

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Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me. Votes: 0

Jason Flemyng

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Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally. Votes: 0

Rick Perlstein

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Hookers have to deliver on their promise... unlike politicians. Votes: 0

Marty Feldman

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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians. Votes: 0

Jessica Savitch

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Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting. Votes: 0

Charley Pride

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There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians. Votes: 0

Emile Hirsch

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You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians. Votes: 0

Peter Capaldi

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At least the politicians are accountable to the voters. Votes: 0

Jesse Jackson

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The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers. Votes: 0

Paul Washer

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Kings and such are just as funny as politicians. Votes: 0

Theodore Roosevelt

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Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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I cover media people the way they cover politicians. Votes: 0

Matt Drudge

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If politicians would think more they would act less. Votes: 0

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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Politics is too important to be left to politicians. Votes: 0

Warren Rudman

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I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'. Votes: 0

Red Skelton

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I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela. Votes: 0

Clint Eastwood

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You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses. Votes: 0

Joe Klein

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Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs. Votes: 0

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely. Votes: 0

Jack Germond

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Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives. Votes: 0

George Osborne

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All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away. Votes: 0

Kenan Evren

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It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves. Votes: 0

Alison Pill

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People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt. Votes: 0

Paddy Ashdown

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Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The public want honesty from their politicians.Not showy gimmicks. Votes: 0

Theresa May

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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live. Votes: 0

James Brown

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Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians? Votes: 0

Susan Estrich

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I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians. Votes: 0

Craig Ferguson

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Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus! Votes: 0

Neal Boortz

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Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. Votes: 0

Ilana Mercer

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I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves. Votes: 0

Tony Blair

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Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are. Votes: 0

William Hague

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Good politicians know when to move on, sooner or later. Votes: 0

Richard Brookhiser

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The politicians should not tell the people to shut up. Votes: 0

John Stossel

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The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians. Votes: 0

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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It is not the business of politicians to please everyone. Votes: 0

Margaret Thatcher

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Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. Votes: 0

John Podhoretz

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The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians. Votes: 0

John Stossel

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[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians. Votes: 0

Marco Rubio

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Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert. Votes: 0

Beeban Kidron

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We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting. Votes: 0

John Lennon

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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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These days many politicians are demanding change. Just like homeless people. Votes: 0

George Carlin

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With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie. Votes: 0

Molly Ivins

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There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians. Votes: 0

Peter O'Toole

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Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me. Votes: 0

Sting

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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians. Votes: 0

Barney Frank

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You should stop asking your politicians how they're gonna do it. Votes: 0

Rahul Gandhi

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I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face. Votes: 0

Ben Stiller

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They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing. Votes: 0

Jim Rogers

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Turning to politicians is the worst way to solve a problem. Votes: 0

Jim Babka

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If politicians all told the truth, we'd be out of business. Votes: 0

Jay Leno

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When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand. Votes: 0

John Mellencamp

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More often than politicians, but not as often as they should. Votes: 0

Stephen Hawking

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There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough. Votes: 0

Tony Abbott

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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. Votes: 0

Ted Koppel

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I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do. Votes: 0

Jeremiah Wright

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I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians. Votes: 0

John Mellencamp

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All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others. Votes: 0

David Steel

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America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling. Votes: 0

Al Lewis

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The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle. Votes: 0

George E. Brown, Jr.

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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters. Votes: 0

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked. Votes: 0

Steven Soderbergh

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British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying. Votes: 0

Tim Harford

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Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism. Votes: 0

John Haynes Holmes

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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians. Votes: 0

Chuck Pfarrer

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Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state. Votes: 0

Thomas Sowell

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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. Votes: 0

Walter Lippmann

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Very few politicians in Washington really represent the interests of many people. Votes: 0

Sally Satel

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Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington. Votes: 0

Ted Cruz

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All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office. Votes: 0

Graham Hancock

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Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives. Votes: 0

Gary Gutting

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Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians. Votes: 0

Jim Rogers

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Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected. Votes: 0

Malala Yousafzai

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The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists. Votes: 0

Robert Anton Wilson

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Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. Votes: 0

George McGovern

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Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. Votes: 0

Abigail Adams

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Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans. Votes: 0

Thomas Sowell

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I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve. Votes: 0

Iain Banks

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The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers. Votes: 0

Tim Robbins

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The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. Votes: 0

Clare Boothe Luce

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There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision. Votes: 0

David Korten

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Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians. Votes: 0

Ulysses S. Grant

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Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. Votes: 0

William E. Simon

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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. Votes: 0

J. B. Priestley

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Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians. Votes: 0

Chester Bowles

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The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war. Votes: 0

R. Lee Ermey

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When politicians declare war, I declare my love for antilove for them. Votes: 0

Jarod Kintz

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I like lots of career politicians; I'm not against all career politicians. Votes: 0

Jeff Greene

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I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians. Votes: 0

Bill Nighy

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. Votes: 0

Tony Benn

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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question. Votes: 0

John Major

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All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people. Votes: 0

Martha Gellhorn

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Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. Votes: 0

Hannah Arendt

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People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action. Votes: 0

Donald Trump

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The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians. Votes: 0

Avery Brundage

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Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected. Votes: 0

Alice Paul

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Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say. Votes: 0

Jose Padilha

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There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians. Votes: 0

Carmen Lawrence

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I admire personalities. Some politicians who are only great mice are just persons. Votes: 0

Milos Zeman

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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought. Votes: 0

Bill Moyers

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Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners. Votes: 0

Simon Hoggart

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Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians. Votes: 0

Costa-Gavras

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Some politicians like to kiss babies. I like to kiss the baby's mommas. Votes: 0

Edwin Edwards

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If politicians and business leaders become "protectors of creation" nature shall be saved. Votes: 0

Auliq Ice

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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad? Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues. Votes: 0

Ken Livingstone

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Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one. Votes: 0

Carlo Gambino

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We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional. Votes: 0

Bill Shuster

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Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise. Votes: 0

Ian Anderson

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Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity. Votes: 0

Mary E. Pearson

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I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians. Votes: 0

Peter Capaldi

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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Votes: 0

Henry A. Kissinger

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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers. Votes: 0

Viola Davis

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I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors. Votes: 0

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out. Votes: 0

Fidel Castro

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I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair. Votes: 0

Pamela Anderson

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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. Votes: 0

Dick Armey

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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be Votes: 0

Evelyn Waugh

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I've always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians Votes: 0

Jared Leto

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By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil. Votes: 0

Sheldon Richman

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[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians. Votes: 0

Bill Frist

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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them. Votes: 0

Wang Jianlin

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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists. Votes: 0

Maria Montessori

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You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians. Votes: 0

Robert P. Murphy

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On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen. Votes: 0

Semir Zeki

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A monetary order created and managed by politicians and officials is bound to disappoint. Votes: 0

Hans F. Sennholz

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the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians. Votes: 0

Eleanor Rathbone

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Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively. Votes: 0

Meredith Whitney

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Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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In a position to make a difference, politicians and hypocrites they don't wanna listen. Votes: 0

Tupac Shakur

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Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords. Votes: 0

Charles Kennedy

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The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed. Votes: 0

Newt Gingrich

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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome. Votes: 0

Benjamin Whichcote

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When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical. Votes: 0

Pope Benedict XVI

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Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones. Votes: 0

Keith Waterhouse

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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships. Votes: 0

Andrew Crofts

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We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us. Votes: 0

Michael Howard

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I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action. Votes: 0

Donald Trump

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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians. Votes: 0

Yoko Ono

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I was one of those people who was always rather frightened of women politicians. Votes: 0

William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

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Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America. Votes: 0

Mitt Romney

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Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. Votes: 0

Phillip Adams

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The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country. Votes: 0

Kenneth Clarke

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Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes. Votes: 0

Ilana Mercer

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It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians. Votes: 0

Alexis Ohanian

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The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians. Votes: 0

Dwayne Andreas

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The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. Votes: 0

Will Rogers

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I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal. Votes: 0

Lakshmi Mittal

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Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it. Votes: 0

Peter Mandelson

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I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want. Votes: 0

Paul Weller

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The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians. Votes: 0

Andy Rooney

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I think politicians sometimes badly underestimate the true feelings that Americans have for the land. Votes: 0

Mo Udall

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I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me. Votes: 0

Craig Ferguson

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In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed. Votes: 0

Paul Theroux

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Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better. Votes: 0

William S. Burroughs

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Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better. Votes: 0

Shepard Smith

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We should celebrate more often politicians who stand up and say things that are unpopular. Votes: 0

Philip Davies

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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. Votes: 0

Will Rogers

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I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is. Votes: 0

John F. Kerry

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Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars. Votes: 0

Norman Mailer

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians. Votes: 0

Jerry Brown

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This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes. Votes: 0

Jill Stein

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In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded. Votes: 0

Enrique Pena Nieto

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I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air. Votes: 0

Andre Dubus

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Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race. Votes: 0

Frank Field

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...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe. Votes: 0

Thomas Sowell

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The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians. Votes: 0

Bo Jackson

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If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are. Votes: 0

Rick Scott

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I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians. Votes: 0

Lou Gerstner

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The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation. Votes: 0

Paul Harvey

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We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts. Votes: 0

Rand Paul

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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors. Votes: 0

Samantha Bee

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Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa. Votes: 0

Ned Sublette

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Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads? Votes: 0

Tim O'Brien

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I think people are tired of politicians trying to poke each other in the eye. Votes: 0

Mark Warner

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I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them. Votes: 0

Ewan McGregor

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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people. Votes: 0

Barney Frank

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Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope. Votes: 0

Andrew Marr

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If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend. Votes: 0

Irwin Schiff

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American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything. Votes: 0

Stephen Leacock

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The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians. Votes: 0

Steve Forbes

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All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people. Votes: 0

Paul Theroux

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When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy. Votes: 0

Beeban Kidron

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People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it. Votes: 0

Kinky Friedman

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Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated. Votes: 0

William C. Brown

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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about. Votes: 0

R. W. Apple

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U.S. politicians are increasingly recognizing the relevance of the Hispanic vote in U.S. politics. Votes: 0

Enrique Pena Nieto

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No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians. Votes: 0

Harry Browne

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The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not. Votes: 0

Tulip Siddiq

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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.' Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms. Votes: 0

Adam Michnik

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If there were any people safe to criticize, they'd be politicians and child molesters, doncha think? Votes: 0

Neal Boortz

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In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie. Votes: 0

Robert Kennedy

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The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle. Votes: 0

Tom Coburn

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When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire. Votes: 0

Tony Abbott

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Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them? Votes: 0

Erik Naggum

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Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians. Votes: 0

Desmond Tutu

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People in Indiana like to see their politicians at the county fair or the Rotary Club. Votes: 0

Richard Mourdock

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Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.' Votes: 0

Sheldon Richman

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I'm going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians. Votes: 0

Charles Schumer

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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull. Votes: 0

Rachel Johnson

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If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world. Votes: 0

Will Rogers

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If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business. Votes: 0

Edward Heath

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Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood. Votes: 0

Cal Thomas

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[Donald] Trump is still Trump, and that means he says things that politicians just don't say. Votes: 0

Don Gonyea

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When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians. Votes: 0

Sunday Adelaja

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I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions. Votes: 0

Erin McKeown

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We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then. Votes: 0

Max von Sydow

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Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. Votes: 0

Noam Chomsky

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I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians Votes: 0

Michele Bachmann

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...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery... Votes: 0

John le Carre

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You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth. Votes: 0

Lenny Bruce

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A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us. Votes: 0

Willie D

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All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully. Votes: 0

Dov Davidoff

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War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers. Votes: 0

Sean Beaudoin

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People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Votes: 0

Marina Abramovic

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Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals. Votes: 0

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians. Votes: 0

Harold Ford, Jr.

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In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. Votes: 0

Jonas Mekas

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I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place. Votes: 0

Paul Merton

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The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam. Votes: 0

William Westmoreland

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It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided. Votes: 0

Dominique de Villepin

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We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Warren

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It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something. Votes: 0

Anthony Trollope

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I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians. Votes: 0

Jasmine Guinness

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Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes. Votes: 0

Jill Stein

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There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together. Votes: 0

Jonathan Rauch

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Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them. Votes: 0

Timothy Leary

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Policy changes like what you desire come from our politicians. So let them know what you think. Votes: 0

Michelle Singletary

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The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. Votes: 0

Tony Blair

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It's so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets. Votes: 0

Bob Hope

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I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians. Votes: 0

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless. Votes: 0

Ted Nugent

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Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything. Votes: 0

Margaret Thatcher

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I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland. Votes: 0

Jean-Luc Godard

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There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong. Votes: 0

Masuji Ibuse

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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution. Votes: 0

Carly Fiorina

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I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes. Votes: 0

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows. Votes: 0

Robert J. Samuelson

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For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it. Votes: 0

Richard M. Nixon

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. Votes: 0

Peggy Noonan

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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. Votes: 0

Muhammad Iqbal

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God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it. Votes: 0

Ely Culbertson

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There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move. Votes: 0

Felicity Kendal

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Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant. Votes: 0

Ron Paul

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Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them. Votes: 0

Matthew Parris

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I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way. Votes: 0

Muqtada al Sadr

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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens. Votes: 0

Rita Mae Brown

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We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians. Votes: 0

MaryJanice Davidson

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We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them. Votes: 0

Charles Kennedy

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Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. Votes: 0

Bob Beckel

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It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research. Votes: 0

Isaac Asimov

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One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians. Votes: 0

William F. Buckley, Jr.

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I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians. Votes: 0

Owen Arthur

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Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few. Votes: 0

Louis L'Amour

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I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not. Votes: 0

Alexei Sayle

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If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust. Votes: 0

Morena Baccarin

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What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. Votes: 0

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

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That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians. Votes: 0

Billy Bragg

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My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about. Votes: 0

Johann Lamont

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed. Votes: 0

Claude Pepper

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I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track. Votes: 0

Lewis Black

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The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. Votes: 0

Grover Norquist

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There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else. Votes: 0

Thomas Sowell

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I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes. Votes: 0

Hun Sen

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I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200. Votes: 0

Roseanne Barr

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What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. Votes: 0

Estelle Morris

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I never fear famous politicians, never fear the big parties, I only fear the people do not understand. Votes: 0

Khem Veasna

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For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else. Votes: 0

Henry Hazlitt

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Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living. Votes: 0

Ludwig von Mises

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Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that? Votes: 0

Bob Saget

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The more women, the more liars. The more politicians, the more liars. The more female politicians ... God save us! Votes: 0

Elmar Hussein

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politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names Votes: 0

Louisa May Alcott

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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins

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Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous. Votes: 0

Peter Bruce

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There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians. Votes: 0

Sadiq Khan

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(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out) Votes: 0

Zadie Smith

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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? Votes: 0

Thomas Sowell

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The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power. Votes: 0

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

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Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going. Votes: 0

Mark Mills

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I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy. Votes: 0

Donald Trump

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Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve. Votes: 0

Kit Harington

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Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Edwards

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One thing I love about politicians; they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts. Votes: 0

Quentin R. Bufogle

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God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Votes: 0

Charles de Gaulle

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I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff. Votes: 0

Richard O'Brien

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It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world. Votes: 0

Antonio Tabucchi

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We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off. Votes: 0

Michael Monroe

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It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen. Votes: 0

John Humphrys

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For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position. Votes: 0

Eddie Izzard

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Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper Votes: 0

Emmanuel Jal

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There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change. Votes: 0

David Korten

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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves. Votes: 0

Bono

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A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing. Votes: 0

Patrick Caddell

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In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be. Votes: 0

Guillermo del Toro

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It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country. Votes: 0

Mario Monti

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Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor. Votes: 0

Kevin Spacey

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Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process. Votes: 0

David Blunkett

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When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed. Votes: 0

Tony Snow

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I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them. Votes: 0

Steven Wright

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. Votes: 0

Robert Orben

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Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach. Votes: 0

Octavia Butler

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Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so. Votes: 0

John Cornyn

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I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. Votes: 0

Horace Walpole

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Professional politicians are busy looking out for their jobs. Send me to Congress so I can look out for your job. Votes: 0

Robert J. Garagiola

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Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money. Votes: 0

Richard J. Needham

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I know politicians - I know politicians, believe it or not, better than you [Ted Cruz] do. And it's not good. Votes: 0

Donald Trump

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I'm used to politicians being angry with me, you know, because I don't work for them. I work for my viewers. Votes: 0

Megyn Kelly

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I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence. Votes: 0

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword. Votes: 0

Jarod Kintz

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The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy Votes: 0

Bill Vaughan

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The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. Votes: 0

Maureen Murphy

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As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU. Votes: 0

Angela Merkel

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Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win. Votes: 0

Paul Begala

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It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes. Votes: 0

Robert Novak

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Isn't that what our job to do is right there in media to discuss what politicians are doing so they stop doing it. Votes: 0

Eric Bolling

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In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Votes: 0

Groucho Marx

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At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.

Clarence H. Burns

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When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages.

Donald Trump

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Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

Jean Chretien

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The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

Kirby Dick

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Our politicians screw up all the time, as we see. But with so many things, we're no longer the world leader in that.

Peter Sagal

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One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.

Ted Cruz

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We Shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women

Barack Obama

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We're running a war by politicians and we're running a war by political correctness as per that question [with ISIS].

Donald Trump

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These guys from the nation's capital - now they do a lot of thinking. Referring to boxers from D.C., not politicians.

George Foreman

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Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

Harry Browne

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You need to pray. Donald Trump is who he is - and that's one thing that politicians are not. It's all "game playing."

Louis Farrakhan

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a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

Rae Foley

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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

Waylon Jennings

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I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

Ken Livingstone

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When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance

Phil Harding

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The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

Barbara Kingsolver

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It was a new kind of class war -- the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

Irving Kristol

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I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

Jeffrey Sachs

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I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

John P. Wheeler III

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For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician not even a church politician.

Martin Niemoller

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Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

Walter Lippmann

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The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

Arthur Miller

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Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.

Charles Rangel

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Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

H. L. Mencken

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Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Helmut Schmidt

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As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.

Laura Huxley

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The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

Walter Lippmann

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The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

Helen Fisher

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Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

Jim Rogers

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I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as women politicians.

Preneet Kaur

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Since there are no absolutes, when it's convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that?

Ted Cruz

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This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.

Orrin Hatch

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There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

Armando Iannucci

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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers,

Banksy

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Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

Joel Miller

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Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

Greg Gutfeld

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As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.

Tulip Siddiq

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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

Dolores Huerta

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All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

George Carlin

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Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

Harry Browne

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So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

Jack McDevitt

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Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.

Kim Campbell

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Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

P. J. O'Rourke

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I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

Robert Crandall

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The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

W. H. Auden

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Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.

Walter E. Williams

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An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.

Marc Morano

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Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.

Ron Paul

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The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation...

Thomas Sowell

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All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

Cynthia Ozick

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A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

Enoch Powell

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We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.

Jay Leno

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I hope people can stop believing everything politicians say about Mexico and the United States, and the problems that we share.

Demian Bichir

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[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.

Donald Trump

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You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

James Lovelock

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Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet

Nicholas Stern

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I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

Tony Blair

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Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

Marianne Thieme

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Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

Stephen Farrell

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Despite that sort of reputation that Canada has of being a boring place, we really have produced really interesting politicians.

Terry Mosher

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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Agnes de Mille

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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

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You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Clint Eastwood

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The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.

Henry Wriston

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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

Chris Hedges

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Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

Amitai Etzioni

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Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica.

Damian Marley

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It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.

Marjorie Grene

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I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.

Pat Paulsen

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In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

David J. C. MacKay

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We have politicians that are grossly incompetent. We have leaders that are incompetent and we have negotiators that are incompetent.

Donald Trump

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The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house.

Hank Williams, Jr.

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At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

Lawrence M. Krauss

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Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

Richard L. Gordon

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Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

Robert Caro

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I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

Johnny Carson

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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 A. Schumpeter

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We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

Marina Abramovic

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Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

Mel Gibson

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Politicians never live up to all the hopes that we invest in them but I think he [Barack Obama] has made America a different country.

Michael Fullilove

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We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.

Murari Lal Sharma

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I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.

Pierre Trudeau

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Putting measures like gay marriage on ballots for elections only hurts the gay rights cause and elects more conservative politicians.

Roseanne Barr

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Diplomacy should always be our first option. Most politicians only talk, not fight. I've fought; talking is far better than fighting.

Seth Moulton

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Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

Vaclav Klaus

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If enough citizens believe their national security's in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need.

James Morcan

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Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

Molly Ivins

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No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Neal Boortz

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I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians.

Ted Cruz

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Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

Ziggy Marley

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We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothingâitâs easier to do nothing.

Carl Hart

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I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how to laugh.

Elif Safak

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If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

John F. Kennedy

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Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out

Will Rogers

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We must never forget our responsibilities as politicians to our country and its citizens. We must always remain humble before our people.

Angela Merkel

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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Gloria Steinem

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Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

James Bovard

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Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

Jim Cooper

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Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive.

Peggy Noonan

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It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

Edmund Burke

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American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.

Larry Pressler

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Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats -- all of it.

Riyad Mansour

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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Che Guevara

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This country has had 200 years of hegemony over the rest of the world, and it feels like our politicians, they just want to give that back.

Donald Trump, Jr.

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Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the evidence of why I disagree.

Michael Marmot

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I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

Rush Limbaugh

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You can use data wrong. It's just like polling. There have been a lot of politicians who go conduct a poll to figure out what they believe.

Ted Cruz

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As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

Aaron Swartz

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Most politicians have to find a way past that allergy. They have to find a way to go door to door, person to person, or else they don`t win.

Chris Matthews

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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

Harry Browne

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Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

Milton Friedman

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I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

Miriam

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We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

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The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

Samuel J. Wurzelbacher

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I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.

Barack Obama

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The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

James Dale Davidson

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There are some honorable politicians; and God bless them, there aren't many of them - but they're narcissistic. They need people to love them.

Ann Coulter

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The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

Assata Shakur

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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

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No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

Nancy Northup

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Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin.

Thomas J. Paprocki

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The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

Tom Coburn

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I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

J. B. Priestley

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There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

Malachy McCourt

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Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

Ted Cruz

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The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.

David Crosby

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It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

Harry Browne

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Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

James Bovard

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If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

John Stossel

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Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Harry Browne

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I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

Joe Conason

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When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

Harry Browne

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Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.

Jon Kyl

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I understand that this has taken a lot of politicians by surprise. But we believe that this is an important and right step for the steel industry.

Lakshmi Mittal

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Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.

Malcolm Turnbull

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The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.

Martin Schulz

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[Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?] More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

Stephen Hawking

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A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

William C. Bryant

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No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

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There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.

Christopher Michael Cillizza

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The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

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Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

Tom Baker

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All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.

Tony Judt

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The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid.

Bill Maher

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But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

Confucius

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When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don't pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune.

Louis Farrakhan

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The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

Criss Jami

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My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").

Gore Vidal

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We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

Henry David Thoreau

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Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

Ray Bradbury

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It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

Shinzo Abe

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Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

William J. Clinton

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Tax is a big expense. And I wouldn't mind paying taxes a lot less if our politicians knew how to spend the money, but they don't. They waste the money.

Donald Trump

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The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of bi-partisan resolution.

Van Jones

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One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs' favourite politicians.

Jane Mayer

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SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.

Pierre Trudeau

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Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that, let the buyer beware.

Jonah Goldberg

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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.

Lauren Bush

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Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

Ronald Reagan

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Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Alan Blinder

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When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

Albert J. Nock

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Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.

Hans Tietmeyer

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It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.

Khem Veasna

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Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.

Elizabeth Warren

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I have become increasingly unnerved by the depth of corruption that exists at many different levels. I'm less upset with politicians than [with] the media.

Jon Stewart

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There is no limit to the hunger politicians have for the money you've worked so hard for. ... You can tell them to take a hike, but then the guns come out.

Neal Boortz

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Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.

Nigel Godrich

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For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.

Paul Jacob

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While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult,

Barry Eichengreen

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Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

Jim Bridenstine

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There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.

Russell Baker

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He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Many of the local institutions and politicians and veterinarians are involved in illegal trade. To crack that down, it's a big crime and big names to reveal.

Veronika Varekova

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Rick Scott used let's get to work to say: All these politicians talk; it's time to do. Everybody else talks about the problem; it's time to find the solution.

Frank Luntz

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Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

Paul Collier

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Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.

Garry Wills

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The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

Herbert Spencer

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The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

Wendell Phillips

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Globalization has delivered many benefits for international donors, but it's the job of politicians to represent the people - and to put American workers first.

Donald Trump

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I don't see how the people who created the problem can fix it. Texas is worth fighting for, and the best way to fight is to get the politicians out of politics.

Kinky Friedman

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[Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.

Robert Crandall

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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

Oscar Wilde

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People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?

Thomas Sowell

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Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.

William C. Brown

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Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Bono

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[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

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The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic.

D. James Kennedy

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Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

Henry Rollins

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I never imagined I'd be working with government, or military or politicians or big companies. None of this stuff I'm doing was on any business plan anywhere ever.

Simon Sinek

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People are fed up. They are fed up with what's happening in Washington. They are fed up with both parties. They are fed up with politicians who have lied to them.

Ted Cruz

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The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

Angela Merkel

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I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.

Freeman Dyson

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If democracy is to be rebuilt "¦ it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.

Rory Stewart

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The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

Satish Kumar

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He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted to steal if he gets in the chair.

Vitali Klitschko

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We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply with the obtaining or retaining of power.

Davis McCaughey

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Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions.

Margaret Thatcher

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I find it surprising, however, that many German politicians generally oppose referendums, but then when it's an EU matter, they immediately scream for a plebiscite.

Martin Schulz

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What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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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

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All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you.

Donald Trump

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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

Ferdinand Mount

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(Walls) show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbor. ... They can't think what else to do.

Frederick Winslow Taylor

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Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

Thomas Sowell

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I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.

David Rubenstein

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Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

Dick Morris

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Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

Ellen Glasgow

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I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis.

Joan Rivers

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History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

Mark Twain

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As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.

Pierre Trudeau

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Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen and politicians.

Sergio Leone

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Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

Dalai Lama

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Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.

Indro Montanelli

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It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

Edward Gibbon

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To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.

Helen McCloy

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The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.

Ludwig von Mises

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You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

Elizabeth Edwards

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I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.

Malcolm Turnbull

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Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

James Hansen

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Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

Jesse Jackson

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The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.

Carl Sagan

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I know that all over America there's probably politicians sending out pictures of themselves signing that mandatory helmet bill, but it's bullshit. I say that as a parent.

Dave Barry

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I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.

Jo Brand

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The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Theres this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldnt be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

Margot Kidder

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I dont know of one group of people thats more disliked than politicians -- it may be the folks who gave us the Wall Street bailout. And thats where Mitt Romney comes from.

Rick Santorum

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Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.

Pete Seeger

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I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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It seems to be in fashion among Russian politicians to blame Berezovsky for everything. Soon they'll be holding him responsible for global warming, earthquakes and tsunamis.

Alexander Lebedev

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The people I look up to the most - politicians, actors, artists - are the people who manage to do a high-powered job while staying themselves. They aren't afraid to be nice.

Emma Stone

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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Franklin P. Adams

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The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

Henry David Thoreau

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The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.

Thomas Sowell

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...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.

Alla Yaroshinskaya

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I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

Desmond Tutu

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Quite frankly, we wouldn't have the problems that we have in America right now if somebody did a better job - if our politicians did a better job standing up for our country.

Eric Trump

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Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

Nikita Khrushchev

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It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other's pockets and somehow get rich.

Paul Harvey

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Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.

Ray Winstone

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Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing that for years. They're called campaign promises.

Jay Leno

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I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

John F. Kerry

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Maybe it's because I've never been in politics, but I don't believe that America is run by politicians in Washington. I believe it's run by people like us, in places like this.

Wesley Clark

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We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.

Franjo TuÄman

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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

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Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is to stay on board as long as possible.

Nirmala Srivastava

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A number of politicians, including those within your own party, believe Germans would be safer if the German military didn't insert itself into so many of the world's hot spots.

Wolfgang Schauble

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We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

Barack Obama

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Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

John Maynard Keynes

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Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'

Kofi Annan

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Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try.

Gary Becker

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We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.

Gerald Warner

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Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

Lord Acton

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The media, the corporations, the politicians"¦have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all.

Michael Moore

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People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important

Rajeev Shukla

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Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars." (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)

James Clavell

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I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

Jill Soloway

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The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya later, I'll see you in four years.

Donald Trump

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This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.

Kshama Sawant

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The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

Corazon Aquino

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