Politician Quotes - Page 29

• Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Religious, Children

  "A conversation with Jodi about Sing You Home". www.jodipicoult.com.

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• Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

  John Podhoretz

  American History, Barack

  "A brilliant victory" by John Podhoretz, nypost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

  John Podhoretz

  Tactics, Conservative, Republican

  "Conservatives goes wild" by John Podhoretz, nypost.com. January 04, 2013.

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• I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  Alexander Pope

  Party, Unhappy, Division

  Letter to Edward Blount, 27 August 1714, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 1, p. 247

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• How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Trying, Sake

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• I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.

  Dennis Quaid

  Stars, Golf, Weekend

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• Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

  Gerhard Richter

  Jealous, Inability, Inferiority

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

  Adam Rickitt

  Believe, People, Promise

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• I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

  Kid Rock

  Hurt, Thinking, Endorsements

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• I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Great Things, Private Sector

  "Henry Rollins Answers Your Questions About Politics". Interview with AV Club, www.avclub.com. April 19, 2007.

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• Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

  Mitt Romney

  Greatness, Usa, America

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• Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

  Mitt Romney

  Should Have, Support, Boss

  "Mitt Romney Wins in the District of Columbia". "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. April 3, 2012.

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• The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Reporters

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• In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

  Jean Rostand

  Lying, Yesterday, Politics

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Body, Politics, Causes

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.248, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, President, Typical

  "Marco Rubio makes the case for Mitt Romney, steers clear of vice presidential talk". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2012.

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• Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Fighting, Trying

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• President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.

  Paul Ryan

  Years, Issues, Promise

  Paul Ryan's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida,, www.npr.org. August 29, 2012.

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• Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Cutting, Long, People

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• I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Political, Way, Deals

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• Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

  Margaret Sanger

  Country, Diplomats, Facts

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.

  Gus Van Sant

  School, Kids, Casting

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• Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

  Jessica Savitch

  Character, Texas, Literature

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Running, Moving, California

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

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• I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

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