Politician Quotes
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.
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It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.
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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.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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A politician... one that would circumvent God.
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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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The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
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I'm a comedian, not a politician.
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The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
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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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The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.
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I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.
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The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.
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This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.
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It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
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It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
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I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.
