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The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?
My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.
Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.
I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.
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.
Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction
Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin.
I cannot throw my core values into a dustbin as some do for the sake of power and position. What kind of a politician that would make me then?
I am not the type of politician who will tell you I am going to act for my own benefit. The answer is no, I will continue to serve the public.
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.
I am not a politician. I'm an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.
Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.
There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.
[Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?] More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.
Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.
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.
I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.
A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.
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.
There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.
The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.
The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.
The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid.
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.
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
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.
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.
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.
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
I have always thought that Donald Trump was an incredibly clever politician, but he`s - at some point he`s going to become unwound and maybe this is it.
The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.
T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that, let the buyer beware.
I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.
Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.
Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.
I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.