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Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.
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People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.
The Abolition of Work and Other Essays (1986) -
People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.
About state officials Speech at the Progress Party national convention o -
Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
As quoted in Synergetics Dictionary : The Mind of Buckminster Fuller (1986)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.
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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
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Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.
1910 Speech, quoted in Alan L. Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977) -
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
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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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Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
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The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
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The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.
The Fable of the Bees An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue, p. 33
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