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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

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.

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

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

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

Finality is not the language of politics.

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

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.'

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.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

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.

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.

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