#politicians

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

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What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#debate #echo #like #more #often

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#career politicians #decided #may #part #people

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

During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#back #barack #barack obama #believed #bet

All politicians are to some extent salesmen. ↗

— George Will

#politicians #some

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

— George Will

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