#politician

I don't like politicians who vacillate. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#like #politicians #who

Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#agree #also #better #both #democrats

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

#affair #also #burden #business #businesses

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives. ↗

— William Hague

#degree #effectiveness #gain #gives #having

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#politicians

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#bill clinton #clinton #out #politician #smarter

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#certain things #for the people #force #make #markets

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians. ↗

— Owen Arthur

#i #i am #journalists #meant #meant to be

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#crisis #economic #economic crisis #face #get

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

— Muqtada al Sadr

#i #political #politicians #way #will