Politicians Quotes
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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.
Paul Samuelson -
Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So we have the means to guarantee the security of FARC politicians.
Juan Manuel Santos
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I’ve always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I’m interested in politics in that I’m a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can’t get into the ins and outs of it.
Ewan McGregor -
The wind blows wild and i may move, politicians lie and i am not fooled you don't need a razor or a three piece suit to argue the truth.
Brett Dennen -
Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.
Denis MacShane -
Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action.
Ashraf Ghani -
The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
Eleanor Rathbone -
People died of carelessness, of corruption, of abuse, and yet, in every round of voting, gave their enthusiastic approval to the politicians who made their life unbearable.
Elena Ferrante
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There are almost half a million Americans behind bars today for breaking a drug law. The United States incarcerates more people for drug law violations than Western Europe incarcerates for everything, and they have more people than we do. There were 50,000 people behind bars on drug charges in America in 1980; now we have almost a tenfold increase. Yet extraordinarily few politicians are talking about that.
Ethan Nadelmann -
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.
Anthony Trollope -
I wonder how many members can realise what the remilitarisation of the Rhineland means not merely to the excited politicians in Paris, but to the French peasant in his hovel, to the mother who feels that once again the...peril has come near and that once again her children will be mowed down by the scythe of war.
Austen Chamberlain -
This document will play an important role in protecting the strategic interests of Russia and Uzbekistan and ensuring stability and security in the region, which some politicians call Russia's soft underbelly. It's not a secret that after the Soviet collapse and especially in recent years, Central Asia has become the focus of interest of major nations because of its geographic location and rich mineral resources.
Islom Karimov -
We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.
Danny Carey -
I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.
Cenk Uygur
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I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.
Theresa May -
The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters - think of the interest when David Cameron launched WebCameron, or Tony Blair's rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube.
Theresa May -
I think most politicians think most musicians are drug addicts or ‘not an exemplary part of society, so why should they worry about putting in legislation to help that industry when they can help another industry? So, I don’t think there’s a way out, the worst thing that ever happened was the invention of the CD, because a CD is an exact copy of a master recording!
Frankie Banali -
Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.
Anthony Trollope -
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Jonathan Swift -
Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.
Steven Soderbergh
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I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet.
Siegfried Woldhek -
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev -
Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.
Daniel J. Mitchell -
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