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A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

Bill Clinton is the master politician. In one way, you can say that he was never really about self-enrichment - he was interested in power and self-aggrandizement. But Hillary was all about self-enrichment. She really did, I think, feel a sense of entitlement - she wanted money, she wanted power, she wanted prestige.

Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.

Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?

Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.

Congress wants to keep "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Washington politicians are united in their faith. Most worship the same reelection.

Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.

Donald Trump is succeeding right now for sure. He is a gifted politician. But, he is just a gifted politician. He`s just a gifted politician that is appealing to people`s anger and frustration that is quite legitimate.

Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Finality is not the language of politics.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

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

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.

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

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.