#politician

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. ↗

— George McGovern

#campaigning #convinced #elections #negative #off

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country. ↗

— Mario Monti

#come #country #guys #politicians #run

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#come #few #me #politician #president

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s. ↗

— Evo Morales

#almost #before #bolivia #cities #enter

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#again #back #because #change #changes

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#always #course #defend #error #great

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#everything #need #politicians #save #save the world

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#becomes #between #confrontational #constitution #designed

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. ↗

— Maureen Murphy

#female #few #makeup #much #politicians

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#asked #bear #how #interest #just