Quotes of Lawmaker - somelinesforyou

“ A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot. ”

- William Randolph Hearst

“ We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do. ”

- Joe Manchin

“ State legislators ensured that the sun will shine on the interactions between lobbyists and legislators and lobbyists and the executive branch. ”

- Bob Phillips

“ Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness. ”

- Unknown

“ Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician. ”

- Peter Singer

“ I'm not a politician and my other habits are good. ”

- Artemus Ward

“ Politicians — power itself — are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden… ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ That does a significant amount of damage to you. People have such negative opinions of politicians. They always assume politicians are guilty. ”

- Andrew Young

“ The contest is between television presenters, not politicians. ”

- Shimon Peres

“ I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it. ”

- Tom Cole

“ Excuse me, Senator, I'm sorry for interrupting. ”

- Anderson Cooper

“ It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. ”

- John Keegan

“ What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country. ”

- Bill Maher

“ I wouldn't let 'em,... There would be plenty of other senators up here who wouldn't let them. ”

- Bill Nelson

“ Veterans, including myself, would be very proud to have us choose a president and U.S. senators and congressmen and other state officials on our holiday. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us. ”

- Michael Howard

“ Think of us as erotic politicians. ”

- Jim Morrison

“ The politicians have divided a neighborhood. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists. ”

- John McCarthy

“ What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning! ”

- Charlie Chaplin

“ Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined. ”

- Frank Dane

“ That's what I like about you, senator. You're kicking it old-school. ”

- Jon Stewart

“ That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing. ”

- Catherine Deneuve

“ Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that. ”

- Tom Mann

“ The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry. ”

- Howard Dean

“ Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected. ”

- Alice Paul

“ We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions. ”

- George Carey

“ A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man. ”

- e. e. cummings
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