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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

Blame Fair Enough Alone
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Great Stupid Clever Democracy
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Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

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Nigeria needs politicians for whom politics is a vocation not an occupation, who make money from their businesses not the public treasury.

Public Politics Vocation Money
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Attention Away Both Common
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Politicians Nature Sector Great
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Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

Ecosystem Politicians Apathy Voting
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Decisive Feeling Passion Politician
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The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

Above Career Elevate Even
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Basically Been Behave Believe
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Compared Courageous Government Man
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Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.

Activism Begin Change Changes
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I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'

Afforded Been Conservative Daughter East
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I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

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People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a corner by a whole series of contingencies.

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Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk.

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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Honest Live Man Politician
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Both Fight Groups Images
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All the money voted for road constructions were swindled, eaten. Many of them became millionaires, billionaires in Naira, in Dollars, in Pounds, in Euro. Billionaires, when they have no workshop, no business centre. Somebody who has nothing he’s doing, yet he’s a billionaire, because he’s a politician.

Centre Road Money Somebody
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
Arse Everyone Except Man
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I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

Get Honest Luck No Respect
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We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

Got Clear Some Room
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Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

Musicians Run Can State
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And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

And Musicians Better Run
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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Angels Demons Economists Everything
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

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America Could Government Help
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Among Cannibals Constituents Dinner
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

Bridges Build Even Over
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Been Dead Government Man
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

Politician Personality Endowed Charm
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Degraded Democracy Politicians Statesmen
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I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.

Could Face IThink Most
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Mothers Sons Grow President
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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Office Public Life Nature
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I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Women Active Politic Nervous
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.

Doctor Treat Patient Help
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I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.

Realized Becoming Small Community
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If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Back Bringing Buddhism Buddhist
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To become an effective politician, the individual must establish goodwill, respect and trust in the eyes of the people.

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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
Attract Issues People Politicians
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

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Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Admit ICan Mistake Politicians
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Politicians really worry about being politically correct.

About Being Correct Politically
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I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

Am Consequences Only Politician
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I think politicians really go with the tide.

Go I Think Politicians Really
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

Believe Cats Cemetery Dogs
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

Animals Control Events Glorious
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I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa if you see the poverty around us, you can’t afford to be anything else

Politician Socialist Poverty Africa
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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Bachelor Been Born Every
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