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Why politicians get so little benefit of the doubt.
This set is largely skeptical in tone, questioning politicians who talk about expanding a system they haven't fixed, and describing how fear can be turned into a tool for rallying public opinion. Related: Most.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith in technocrats over politicians is not a trend from which Britain is exempt.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tired of politicians saying one thing to get elected and then going to Washington, D.C., or Denver or wherever and completely forgetting about you.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.
- Fantasize
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fantasize that our politicians have been moved by the dialogues of Plato, and thus contemplate the ancient conflict of the sophists versus the lovers of truth.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a sustained distrust for all politicians, even those with whom I agree on more issues than not.
- Corrupt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's some criminals that wear badges. Guess what? There's some criminals that work in the media. There's some criminals that are football coaches. There's some criminals that are politicians. There are criminals that work in churches.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful - the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards - going after them. We shouldn't be attacking the vulnerable.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The days of a politician talking platitudes are over, and if it wasn't for Mr. Trump in this race, people would have allowed politicians to have a pass in talking platitudes about things that will never be accomplished.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020