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Last updated on November 10, 2024.
I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain.
Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
I'm not running for office. I don't have to be politically correct. I don't have to be a nice person. Like I watch some of these weak-kneed politicians, it's disgusting. I don't have to be that way.
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact that campaigns and politicians regularly exploit.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.
In one sense, newspaper editor is an appropriate job for an out-of-work politician; politicians live the news cycle as intensely as editors.
We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.
Globalization has delivered many benefits for international donors, but it's the job of politicians to represent the people - and to put American workers first.
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.
Here's the problem with downplaying the radical nature of decommodification: when you empty something of political content, politicians are free to wield symbols as they please.
On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost, but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.
Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.
British civil society has a fantastic record of campaigning to push politicians of all colours and countries to step up on climate.
What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.
Everywhere I look, I see the possibilities of what America could be. But we can't solve any of these problems by relying on the politicians who created them.
The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.
At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.
Under the right conditions, gay people can become politicians and be in control of their lives in a much broader way through activism.
True crime has long been a passion for me, but I'm also a sucker for biographies, particularly of politicians, writers, or Hollywood icons.
Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.
But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?
Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin.
Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.
I hope people can stop believing everything politicians say about Mexico and the United States, and the problems that we share.
I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis.
The role of the media in economic management is not often recognised even by professional economists. Politicians, however, ignore this at their own peril.
Politicians need to stop picking sides and come up with bold solutions where the safety and security of all citizens become a priority.
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.
In the U.S., these sights are no longer a surprise to me. I see army generals, captains of industry, and politicians of all colours and creeds on American television.
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
Let the market, not politicians, determine the flow of rice, oil and other commodities. Lower, more stable prices will ensue.
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.
As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.
No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.
I'm tired of politicians saying one thing to get elected and then going to Washington, D.C., or Denver or wherever and completely forgetting about you.
A lot of times, politicians will go to where their strongest force is and do things for them, and that's the type of thing they do that I find offensive.
I have a clean image. I want to serve the people with humility and sincerity. Politicians have made use of peoples' votes but do not care for them.
I wanted the Israeli mainstream audience to meet different kinds of Arabs - not just terrorists or politicians - and to listen to their language and their stories.
There are far too many politicians out there who take the wrong position and stick with it and never admit that they should do something different.
Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism.
The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated
Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.
American politicians have openly said that the sanctions are aimed at bringing about regime change in Russia. That's aggressive enough.
Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.
From education to employment, housing to trust in the police, politicians from all parties must understand the different issues affecting individual communities.
