A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man
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A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man
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On the view of earth from 3.7 billion miles away: 'Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home, That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [...] There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.'
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A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
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Speaking to how elections are framed in the USA: It is not Republican vs Democrat, nor Conservative vs Liberal, nor Rich vs Poor/ middle class but the true battle is average voter vs corrupt politician.
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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image wi...
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When I want to buy up any politician I always find the anti-monopolists the most purchasable -- they don't come so high.
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A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word 'but' which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you.
Thus: 'I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... ' (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him ab...
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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Rhetoric is good for the politician, but even he comes to the point when he must take responsibility for his words.
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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
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When we think offhand of a politician, we think of a man who works for a partial interest. At the worst it is his own pocket. At the best it m...
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth
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The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.
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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence
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The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
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The truly skillful politician is one who, when he comes to a fork in the road, goes both ways.
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Being a politician makes your hair turn white,
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The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
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The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
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