- Interesting
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- 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
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a career politician, even though this is my 12th year in the United States House of Representatives.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative difference... when it's a candidate to run a superpower.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020