Politician Quotes - Page 28

• At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

  Harold MacMillan

  Home, Politics, Feels

  1958 Speech during the first visit of a British Prime Minister to Australia,17 Feb.

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• Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Learning

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• The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

  John Major

  Patience, Running, Games

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Margaret Thatcher: And Other Tory Legends". Book by Richard Benson, 2010.

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• A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

  John Major

  Believe, People, Doe

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• During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.

  Michelle Malkin

  Summer, Flames, Obamacare

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• I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.

  Joe Manchin

  Real, Thinking, Voters

  "W.Va. Gov. In No Rush To End Race". Interview with Brian Goldsmith, www.cbsnews.com. May 9, 2008.

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• I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

  Hilary Mantel

  Party, Careers, Lines

  "My other life: Hilary Mantel" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.

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• I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, People, Reason

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

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• It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.

  Theresa May

  Party, Eye, Years

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

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• In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

  Mary McCarthy

  Military, Politics, Retreat

  "Vietnam". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1967.

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• I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

  Ewan McGregor

  Believe, Boring, Don't Trust

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• "Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

  Jay McInerney

  Quarters, Socialist

  "Jay McInerney on Obama: 'We have to give him a second chance'" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2012.

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• I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.

  Jon Meacham

  Believe, Greatness, Elderly

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• Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

  Donella Meadows

  Tasks, Forests, Carbon

  "No Point in Waiting Around for Leadership". The Global Citizen, November 30, 2000.

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• I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.

  John Mellencamp

  Average Joe, Guy, Care

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• I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

  John Mellencamp

  Dirty, Fighting, Naughty

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• When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

  John Mellencamp

  Hands, Enemy, Use

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• As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

  Angela Merkel

  People, Facts, Feels

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

  Angela Merkel

  People, Equal, Committed

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

  Moby

  Fall, People, Judging

  "Is Moby's Music Still Good When Its Free?". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. March 31, 2008.

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• The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

  Moby

  Crazy, Wings, Needs

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• Politicians never keep all their promises.

  Michael Moore

  Promise

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• Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Citizens United, Crash

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• No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

  Steven Morrissey

  People, British, Despised

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• If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

  Ross Perot

  Country, Sacrifice, Journey

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