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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

We have politicians that are grossly incompetent. We have leaders that are incompetent and we have negotiators that are incompetent.

We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system.

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothing—it’s easier to do nothing.

We`re all aware that Hillary Clinton has a problem with the truth. Even among politicians, and that does not make her unique in the swamp that is Washington. But Hillary stands out.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

What makes it possible for politicians to do so many things that are economically counterproductive is that neither the public nor the media know enough of the basics to understand what's wrong with what they're saying.

What we are seeing in Turkey is a non-uniformed authoritarian regime led by a politician, Tayyip Erdogan, who has allowed power to go to his head and is behaving more and more like a despot. Sooner or later this will provoke political uprisings throughout the country as happened after Gezi.

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the predictions are coming true even faster than the scientists thought. We have the inequality crisis, where the Panama Papers are a great reminder that the one per cent have actually created their own economy. We still have the crisis of child poverty, which has never been dealt with despite decades of concerned words from politicians.

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

What you want in an interview is four things: You want someone who can explain what they do very well, who can have a sense of humor and hopefully is self - deprecating, who has a bit of a chip on their shoulder, and passion. If you have passion, a chip on the shoulder, a sense of humor, and you can explain what you do very well, it doesn't matter if you're a plumber or a singer or a politician. If you have those four things, you are interesting.

When a scientist says something, his colleagues must ask themselves only whether it is true. When a politician says something, his colleagues must first of all ask, 'Why does he say it?

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.

Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something.

When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the truth.

While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

Why can't we have a voice? What's the difference between an athlete having millions or Donald Trump? Every time a politician talks, they talk about what's wrong with America. Well, he's an athlete who is also saying something is wrong with America. Why is it that when he talks, people say, 'How can he talk about oppression and make millions?' Well, Trump is talking about it. Hillary Clinton is talking about it. And they have more money than most athletes.

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.