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Jay Leno If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Andrew A. Rooney The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.
Edward Morgan Forster In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
Richard Ingrams It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.
Margaret Truman He loved politicians - even Republicans.
Robert Orben Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
Ted Koppel History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
William E. Simon Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
Clare Boothe Luce The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
Arthur C. Clarke Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Claude Pepper The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Franklin P. Adams The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
James Dale Davidson The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
Saul Bellow Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.
Russell Wayne Baker A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
P. J. O'Rourke Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
Charles Kuralt It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
John Quinton Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.
David Duchovny Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American.
Walter Lippmann Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
Denise Caruso It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
Thomas B. Macaulay Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had le
Lord Macaulay Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Charles Krauthammer Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
William Westmoreland The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
Politicians do it with everyone.
We need more unemployed politicians.
Warning: Politicians can damage your wealth.
Lawyers: The larval form of politicians.
Don't steal.....Politicians hate competition.
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
Politicians are the same all over. they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.
It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.
Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
"everything politicians touch, turns to crap" - Ringo Starr's first and only law of politics
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
"Apes were invented because politicians were needed." -- Asimov
"Government's problem: it's full of politicians" - 'Wolf
"Do the Japanese vote for politicians?" Tom said erectly.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
"Politicians aren't born, they are excreted." (Cicero)
(Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclinati

 

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