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The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
Theodore White
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.
Edward Koch
The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
Auberon Herbert
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
Earl Wilson
The first black president will be a politician who is black.
Doug Wilder
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
John George Nicolay
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry Bolingbroke
The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.
Howard Dean
The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
Earl Long
The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
Silvio Berlusconi
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
Ben Okri
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Richard M. Nixon
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt
The news of any politician's death should be listed under "Public Improvements."
Frank Dane
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
Roland Barthes
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow
The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
Maurice Barres
The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
John Major
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
Mackenzie King
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
Roger Mudd
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