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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
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I'm not a politician; I'm a very open, honest guy, and that's the way it is - that's the way I am; take it or leave it.
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Cable television is basically now the business of former political professionals. Joe Scarborough, a former Florida Congressman, is a far more successful cable host than he ever was a politician.
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As a politician, I spent a lot of time in Washington and New York, cities that are familiar to Europeans.
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An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.
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I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.
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A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
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I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
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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.
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I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.
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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
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