Politician Quotes - Page 24

• Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

  John Sununu

  Growth, Enough Time, Cost

  First Speech by Anne Ruston as representative of South Australia, www.anneruston.com.au. October 10, 2012.

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• Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

  James Surowiecki

  Lying, Offering, Opponents

  "Stand Up For Your Budget, Paul Ryan". www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2012.

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• When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay.

  James Surowiecki

  Clever, Honesty, Ignorance

  "Mixed Motives". www.newyorker.com. November 8, 2004.

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• Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.

  James Surowiecki

  Immigration, Reform, Borders

  "Immigration Reform and the American Worker". www.newyorker.com. February 21, 2013.

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• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Men, Ideas

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• What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

  Matt Taibbi

  Office, Campaigns, Favors

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• You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

  Matt Taibbi

  Winning, Years, Games

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• I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

  Serj Tankian

  Artist, Expression, Avenues

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

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• I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Giving Up, Play, Cricket

  "Cricket pitch to parliament: Sachin Tendulkar's political move" by Harmeet Shah Singh, www.cnn.com. May 02, 2012.

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• I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.

  Twyla Tharp

  Thinking, Decision, Different

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life.

  David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir

  Gratitude, Political, Politics

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• No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Party, Rights, Political

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1940, Volume 9”, p.408, Best Books on

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• Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Political, Politics

  "In Defence of Politics".

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• Politics makes strange post-masters.

  Kin Hubbard

  Political, Politics, Strange

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• It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

  Anthony Trollope

  Honesty, Men, Political

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• Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

  Plutarch

  Military, Ocean, Political

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• One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Business, Keys

  "Less Than Artful Choices: Narcissistic Personality Disorder According to Donald Trump" by Maria Konnikova, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mean, People, Office

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson On Literacy, Curiosity, Education, And Being 'In Your Face'". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. February 25, 2010.

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• I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

  Jesse Ventura

  Believe, Careers, Telling The Truth

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• The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.

  Jesse Ventura

  Lying, Voice, Giving

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• Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

  Bernard Crick

  Evil, Political, Politics

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• The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

  Lech Walesa

  War, Nuclear, Way

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• I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.

  Scott Walker

  Hate, Thinking, Office

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• I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

  George C. Wallace

  Political, Legs, Politics

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• I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

  Horace Walpole

  Political, Politics, Way

  Horace Walpole, John Wright (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.313

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