#politicians

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true. ↗

— George McGovern

#discredit #easier #feeling #get #i

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. ↗

— George McGovern

#campaigning #convinced #elections #negative #off

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

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#charisma #collectively #fall #hard #influenced

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#again #back #because #change #changes

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit. ↗

— Rand Paul

#anything #country #easier #england #impossible

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers. ↗

— Ron Paul

#deficit #deficit spending #deficits #exposed #future

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there. ↗

— Ron Paul

#i #i think #maybe #moon #politicians

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it. ↗

— Kathleen Quinlan

#before #born #deal #figured #gardeners