#politician

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#afterwards #explain #foretell #going #happen

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#country #government #lowered #our #politicians

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap. ↗

— Robert Crandall

#deal #did #full #i #people

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#being #certain #decisions #get #him

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it. ↗

— Ely Culbertson

#god #peace #politicians #states #united

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#believe #capital #dedicate #developing #development

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#cows #daring #eaten #enough #exists

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#data #expert #how #i #i think

Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#politics-of-the-united-states #war #faith

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#because #been #clear #courage #dean