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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.
Americans don't mind rich politicians. History is full of them. What they do mind are people who ask for their vote but don't connect with them.
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.
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have.
The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.
I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.
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.
We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke a famine.
Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons.
Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
We can have all the walkouts we want, but if we don't walk to that ballot box and make our voices heard, these politicians aren't going to listen.
I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.
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!
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is spent.
For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.
Politicians... say what they say - you might get every now and again a genuine one, innit? But I think people, like, as a whole make the difference.
Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.
So many red lines have been crossed that people seem to think it is acceptable for politicians and the media to actually incite hatred and violence.
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.
The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.'
The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.
I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
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.
Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.
I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
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'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.
There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
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.
Fear is hugely contagious. Used skillfully by politicians looking to manipulate voters, it can become toxic and capable of infecting more than just a few.
Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.