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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

Politicians have available a very nice EAP [employee assistance program]. There are psychological services available. All they have to do is pick up a phone. All the parties encourage them to do that. There are very few politicians who, once they're elected, take the time to rest and recover, whether you look at John Tory's schedule or Kathleen Wynne.

Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

Politicians neither love nor hate.

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

Politicians are conservative by nature.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Politicians are supposed to be empathetic. And, yes, I am, actually.

Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

Politicians don't like empowered individuals.

Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

Politicians love change, but of details only.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one part of the total tax system. There are sales taxes, Medicare taxes, social security taxes, unemployment taxes, gasoline taxes, excise taxes - and when you add up all of those taxes [many of which are quite regressive], and then you look at how they affect the rich and the poor, you essentially end up with a system in which the best off 20 percent of Americans pay one percentage point more of their income than the worst off 20 percent of Americans.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

Politicians cannot alter trends.

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.