#politician

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#allowing #cannot #due #excellent #help

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power. ↗

— Rob Walton

#business #control #controls #get #going

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#last #newspapers #politicians #running #thing

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#bent #britain #corporation #effectively #influence

All politicians are to some extent salesmen. ↗

— George Will

#politicians #some

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. ↗

— George Will

#audience #his #less #politician #reveal

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. ↗

— George Will

#because #constitute #elite #fascinate #good

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#computer #every #i #laptop #massage

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#against #agenda #always #exactly #feel

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough? ↗

— Joe Wurzelbacher

#enough #enough is enough #going #money #our