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Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

A great politician has great charisma.

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.

Alexei Navalny, the opposition politician who has led anti-corruption protests, had a blog about a credit line to a company owned by Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, $1.75 billion from Russian state funds; this is one transaction. Putin controls more money directly and indirectly than any individual in human history.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out

All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue in front of the camera and then big public speeches.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

All politicians operate within an Orwellian nimbus where words don't mean what they normally mean, but Rovism posits that there is no objective, verifiable reality at all. Reality is what you say it is.

All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

A lot of politicians now, here's what they're worried about. If you're a Democrat you're worried about your base on the left, and if you're a Republican you're worried about your base on the right.

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

American politicians have openly said that the sanctions are aimed at bringing about regime change in Russia. That's aggressive enough.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again....But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

Anybody who says, "Look, John, I'm a politician. Don't believe a word I say," is a friend of mine.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.