#politician

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie. ↗

— Theodore White

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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. ↗

— Earl Wilson

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As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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I am definitely not a politician. ↗

— Tiger Woods

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If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? ↗

— Barry Goldwater

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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

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Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

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Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn. ↗

— Harry Browne

#achieve #earn #everything #far #good

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. ↗

— Harry Browne

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