Politician Quotes - Page 27

• When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.

  Penn Jillette

  Kids, Race, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Sarcastic, Wife, Horny

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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• What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Hate, Voice, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

  Jay-Z

  Music, Thinking, Race

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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 F. Kennedy

  Sisterhood, Want, Empowering Women

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.797, Best Books on

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• I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have.

  Joe Klein

  Understanding, Favour, Flaws

  "Man with no name". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2000.

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• The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

  Ed Koch

  Weight, Mouths, Way

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• Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

  Kenneth Koch

  Mean, Hype, Deception

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• I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

  Dean Koontz

  Use, Literature, Levels

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• A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Goal, Literature

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• Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Teaching, Years

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• In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Average, Ordinary, Gone

  "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Country, Brazil, Today

  "Obama Is Average". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Debris, Courses

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• To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Spiritual, Taken, Rely Upon

  "The Revolution Betrayed" by Lenin Trotsky, (p. 236), 2006.

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• A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

  A. J. Liebling

  Principles, Louisiana, Difficulty

  Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press

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• The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Powerful, Government, Self

  Keynote Address to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 28 February 2009, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Cutting, World

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• I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Two, People, Example

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• Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who's in it for himself, who can't do anything on his own. He's not qualified. All of this is becoming known, sadly, too late.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Everyday, Promise

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• I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

  Ken Livingstone

  Country, Rights, World

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• You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

  James Lovelock

  Jobs, Negative, Way

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• I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.

  John Lydon

  Perfect, Care, Embodiment

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• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Artist, Thinking, Citizens

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 7, 2013.

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• As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

  Harold MacMillan

  Ideas, Sound, Usual

  Speech to London Conservatives, 7 Mar. 1961, in The Times 8 Mar. 1961

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