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In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'

Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy. Iowans know what is best for Iowa more than Washington politicians and bureaucrats do.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

I shall be a good politician. Even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else, for that matter.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

I thought Donald Trump once again just missed a whole bunch of opportunities to bury Hillary Clinton, and he missed them because he's not a politician, and he's not instinctively oriented toward the ideological explanations that undergird Hillary's policies.

I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politician I'd need to come up with some answers.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures

It's so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

I've dealt with Democrats and Republicans all my life, and somebody said, "Oh, do you have that much experience politically?" You know, I've dealt - and understand this better than anybody. I've dealt with politicians all of my life.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.