The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
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The politician is.. Trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
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A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.
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A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.
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A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation.
He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
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Convictions in a politician are an infirmity, and may prove a very serious injury.
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No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
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The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
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The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.
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When a politician mentions God half a dozen times in a speech, it's to appropriate for his campaign the name God. He's suggesting that God has endorsed the ticket and given permission to have His name used in promotional material in exchange for certain considerations, like school prayer. There are lots of cheap tricks used in political campaigns, and evoking God's name is one of them.
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If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.
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The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
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For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea
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The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life
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A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
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The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.
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A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
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