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| I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. |
| Socrates |
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| 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 |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be |
| Evelyn Waugh |
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| In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. |
| Charles de Gaulle |
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| Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. |
| Doug Larson |
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| It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt |
| Thomas Paine |
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| It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. |
| Henrik Ibsen |
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| Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint. |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. |
| Harry S Truman |
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| Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. |
| Lily Tomlin |
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| Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. |
| Henry Kissinger |
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| Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. |
| Henry Kissinger |
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| No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. |
| Winston Churchill |
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| Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. |
| George Orwell |
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| Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. |
| Aristotle |
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| Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. |
| Nikita Khrushchev |
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| Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely |
| Will Rogers |
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