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Look...it's empty...as empty as a politician's promise!

My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.

[On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

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.

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

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

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

Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

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

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

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.