We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity… — Gerald Warner Copy Share Image
Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Politics can be very mean and dirty. The things politicians say about each other, and what activists say, I had a brief… — Matt Hasselbeck Copy Share Image
Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
“YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
Welcome to the decline of America where, in six short decades, we have gone from aspiring to judge a man by the… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state,… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who… — Billy Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have always disliked it when politicians start pandering to veterans and telling us how bad we have it and that if… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Washington is a very complicated city. You have to work the personal relationships. They are politicians, they are congressmen, they are senators,… — Anibal Acevedo Vila Copy Share Image
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
About 3 million IVF babies have been born since Louise Brown's birth in 1978. Bizarrely, when this life-giving treatment was first considered,… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I want politicians to be held to account for their politics and their principles, or lack of them, but I find it… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
One of my rules is I generally don't talk to elected officials. It's kind of a firewall. I'll talk to staff if… — Markos Moulitsas Copy Share Image
Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean,… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Beware of politicians who tell you they'll do all these wonderful things for you for only a small tax increase. Those tax… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
“Politicians would be well advised not to hold their breath for youth to engage in politics any time soon. Today’s youth are… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
I'm perhaps not the most tribal of politicians. Working in a mature and adult way where you recognise what your shared goal… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote… — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
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Politicians have been spreading fear, saying if we're letting in refugees, we're letting in terrorists. It's not the truth. We've got to… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Rather than shutting down free speech, we need to broaden it, to make it possible for young people to say even the… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer.… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We have revenue coming in. We can pay our interest payments. And then we can prioritize what government programs that have been… — Todd Rokita Copy Share Image
If there is a 'Leave' vote in England and across the U.K. as a whole, then we see the reins of power… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Washington is deeply frustrating because so many of the positions that politicians hold are a product of ephemeral self-interest. They reverse themselves,… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
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