Paul Keating Quotes
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.
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Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.
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The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.
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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.
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The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.
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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.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.
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Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like.
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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.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
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I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
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I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.
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Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.
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Somehow when you see a politician kiss a baby, shake a hand -- kiss anything -- it is tainted.
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I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
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Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
