Quotes with politicians

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  • Bruce Robinson I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Ben Carson I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Evelyn Waugh If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Bob Woodward If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Cai Guo-Qiang In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians.
    Cai Guo-Qiang
    Chinese artist (1957 - )
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  • Bill Dedman In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ben Hecht In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Jerry Brown It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
    Jerry Brown
    American politician (1938 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Anthony Trollope 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
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Henrik Ibsen It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • George Mcgovern It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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  • Barney Frank It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation's self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition - and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • W. H. Auden My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bill Nye NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Henry Kissinger Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Bill Clinton No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.
    Detroit Economic Club, August 21, 1992
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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