601 Quotes About Politicians
- Author Gregor Collins
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Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.
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- Author Kenneth Eade
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Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. That’s why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. It’s easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the point of a conviction
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- Author Steven Ivy - Attorney Entrepreneur
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The problem with all politicians is that they are human.
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- Author Sam Houssami
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They lives rough, and risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks. What means this? Politicians!
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- Author Isaac Marion
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... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always. There was no way they could not fail us - they were human, and so were we.
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- Author Alain de Botton
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Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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- Author Vernor Vinge
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Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
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- Author Christopher Hitchens
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Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)
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- Author Bertrand Russell
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The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his associates...Moreover, since politicians are divided into rival groups, they aim at similarly dividing the nation, unless they have the good fortune to unite it in war against some other nation.
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