Politician Quotes - Page 25

• Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Presidential, Campaigns

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 04, 2012.

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• There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.

  Gail Collins

  Hate, Rights, Order

  "Marriage Security and Insecurities". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 27, 2013.

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• In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

  Kevin Costner

  America, Decision, Made

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• Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

  Stanley Crouch

  Dog, Liars, School

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• Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Long, Good Listener, Listeners

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• I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.

  John Paul DeJoria

  People, Guy, Together

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• The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

  Jim DeMint

  Party, Tea, Tea Party

  "Interview: Sen. Jim DeMint on Tea Party, U.S. Debt, and God's Calling". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.

  Howard Dean

  Wings, Issues, Abortion

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• Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Tools, Done

  c.1874 Letter.

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• A majority is always better than the best repartee.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Majority, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5018, Delphi Classics

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• Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

  Tommy Douglas

  Courage, Political, Too Late

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• Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.

  Umberto Eco

  Mean, Media, People

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• Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Voice, Feet, Sometimes

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• Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Presidential, Politics, Administration

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961”, p.930, Best Books on

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• I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Patriotic, Thinking, Alaska

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• As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

  Nora Ephron

  Running, Men, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we’re under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Sacrifice, Gay, Law

  "Don’t End the War on Terror" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Gun, Second Amendment, Trying

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• By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

  Ron Fournier

  Suffering, President, Defense

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• You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.

  Ron Fournier

  Home, Leader, Political

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• Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Errors, Promise

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• Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.

  Thomas Frank

  Presidential, Desire, Needs

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

  Al Franken

  Ideas, Years, Support

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• We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Successful, Professionalism, Forget

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• We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

  Kinky Friedman

  Guy, Kinky, Rooms

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