- Nov 07, 2020
Politician Quotes
On honesty and skepticism in public life.
This set of politician quotes starts from a plain admission that some spin is simply part of the job, then moves to voices distancing themselves from inherited privilege. For related reflection, see Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Outsider
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a business guy. I'm not a politician.
- Conclude
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Offering a politician's non-apology that accepts everything but responsibility isn't the same as accountability.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020