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To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous.


Bjorn Lomborg


#around #cap-and-trade #costs #dangerous #everything

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.


Clare Boothe Luce


#blue #face #politicians #red #talking

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.


Clare Boothe Luce


#face #politicians #red #talk #themselves

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.


Nelson Mandela


#i #i can #mistake #politicians #some

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.


Harold MacMillan


#certainly #get #people #politicians #purpose

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


Harold MacMillan


#almost #always #feel #home #politician

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


#down #fit #fool #free #freedom

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


#between #break #come #down #generally

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.


Ian McDiarmid


#easy #face #gratifying #hypocritical #i

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.


George McGovern


#discredit #easier #feeling #get #i






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