#politician

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#around #breathe #eat #his #hollywood

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#life #man #politician #private #public

The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss. ↗

— Robert Orben

#good #guy #miss #opportunity #politician

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#becoming #growing #growing up #i #never

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#biggest #both #dedicated #economic #economic policy

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#becoming #country #dictatorship #during #family

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

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#paper #politician #promise #worth #written

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction. ↗

— David Petraeus

#am #conviction #i #i am #never

First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician. ↗

— John Podesta

#foremost #guy #half #him #i