Quotes and Sayings About Politician
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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
-- A. J. LieblingSource : Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.
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Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
-- Alan RudolphSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.
-- Alastair CampbellSource : "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.
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I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
-- Albert Brooks -
When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.
-- Albert J. Nock -
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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People hate politicians. And I can understand why.
-- Alexei Navalny -
I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
-- Alexei Sayle -
Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
-- Andrew Vachss -
The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
-- Andy Rooney -
The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.
-- Angela Merkel -
Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.
-- Angela Merkel -
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As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.
-- Angela Merkel -
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.
-- Anthony Eden -
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
-- Antonia Fraser -
My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
-- Aristotle -
I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.
-- Artemas WardSource : "Fourth of July Oration" by Artemas Ward,
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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Source : "A Clinton Report Card, So Far" by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1993.
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The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
-- Arthur Miller -
I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi