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• I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

  David Petraeus

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  Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I’d be a politician.

  Eugene Ionesco

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• There’s no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

  Ed Rollins

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  Tags in Smarter, Politician

• I am not a politician… I only suffer the consequences.

  Peter Tosh

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  Tags in Myself, Politician

• 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.

  Peter Mandelson

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Politician

• I suppose it’s easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it’s also quite gratifying to play.

  Ian McDiarmid

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  Tags in Politician, Play, Suppose

• It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

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  Tags in Professional, Politician, Private

• No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

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  Tags in Politician, World

• You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

  Arlen Specter

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  Tags in Dead, Politician, Statesman

• Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear – and what they want to hear is what won’t happen.

  Paul Samuelson

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  Tags in Politician, Hear

• The news of any politician’s death should be listed under “Public Improvements.”

  Frank Dane

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• You slam a politician, you make out he’s the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Politician, Wife

• I love this country, I love these people, though I can’t say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Topics in Country, Love

  Tags in Politician

• I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

  P. J. O'Rourke

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• This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.

  Gideon Welles

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  Tags in Politician, Crowd

• Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

  Barry Goldwater

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• When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.

  Barry Goldwater

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• In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

  Gerry Adams

  Topics in Politics

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• The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

  Gerry Adams

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  Tags in Support, Republican, Democratic, Politician

• One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

  Gerhard Schroder

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  Tags in Politician