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Economists often define their discipline as "the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends." But when resources or money really become scarce, economists call it a crisis and say that it's a question for politicians, not their own department.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.

Every form of anti-Semitism, every form of xenophobia plays on the fear of the unknown, and unfortunately there are all too many politicians who know how to manipulate that. The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

France, of course, doesn't need anyone. I don't believe in saviors. But the way in which our country is governed needs to change radically. That starts with the politicians and goes right up to our electoral system and beyond. What we need is a fundamental renewal.

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.

Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

[Hillary Clinton] is typical politician. All talk, no action.

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt politician ever to seek the office of the presidency.

Honey, I forgot to duck

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama's strength. A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today's young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.