#politician

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#carbon #especially #farms #forests #how

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#good #honest #politician #quite #unthinkable

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#equal #measures #people #politicians

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place. ↗

— Paul Merton

#disappointed #first #i #invested #much

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

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

#any #been #country #ever #face

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

#approved #character #conduct #conform #does

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#been #cardinals #kings #many #one time

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