Politician Quotes
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I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches -
When capitalists are thwarted, deflected, or dispossessed, the generals and politicians,... and socialist intellectuals, are always amazed at how quickly the great physical means of production - the contested tokens of wealth and resources of nature - dissolve into so much scrap, ruined concrete, snarled wire, and wilderness.
George Gilder
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The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
Andy Rooney -
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 -
Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.
Barack Obama -
I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.
Liberace -
A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.
Petroleum V. Nasby -
I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
Peter Tosh
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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.
Chuck Klosterman -
No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.
Adolf Hitler -
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
William Randolph Hearst -
The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
Bill Vaughan -
A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.
William Greider -
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
William Manchester
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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 -
Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.
Confucius -
We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
Rita Mae Brown -
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 -
The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our media whether it's a sports star or a movie star or a writer or a politician. They are people that have received media exposure and have become important to us in a way that's not realistic.
David Wallace Crowder -
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 Cullen Bryant
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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 -
When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.
Monica Lewinsky -
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
William Francis Buckley -
Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
Andrew Cuomo