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• Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

  Ian Gilmour

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Politicians, Quest

• You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies – and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

  Bob Geldof

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Politicians

• We’ve got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

  George Carey

  Topics in Decisions, Trust

  Tags in Politicians

• Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it’s both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more… not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

  Thierry Henry

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Politicians, Powerful

• When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

  Walter Lippmann

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politicians, Philosophers

• Smoking calms me down. It’s enjoyable. I don’t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

  David Hockney

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Politicians

• Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Debate, Politicians

• Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

  George Will

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politicians, Fascination

• The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

  Elihu Root

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politicians, Orators, Popularity, Countries

• Politicians often lie.

  Paul Weyrich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politicians, Lie

• I’ve seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I’ve seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

  George Wallace

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Politicians

• I don’t think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that’s where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.

  Twyla Tharp

  Tags in Line, Politicians

• If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

  Claude Pepper

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politicians, Better, Generation

• Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Name, Politicians

• Politicians have limited power. They can’t impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

  Cal Thomas

  Topics in Country, Power

  Tags in Politicians

• Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politicians, Face

• We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are – politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

  Laurence Olivier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politicians, Kings, Time

• It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

  Barney Frank

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politicians

• The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics – just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Politicians, American

• Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

  David Cameron

  Topics in Inspirational, Leadership

  Tags in Politicians, Rosa, Parks, Courage, Action