"Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers."
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"The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians."
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"I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician."
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"It is not the business of politicians to please everyone."
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"We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty."
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"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."
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"Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical."
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"Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior."
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"Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice."
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"Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after."
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"The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors."
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"It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't."
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"Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine."
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"I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them."
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"I'd have to go for Donald Trump ... you know, 'cause Hillary Clinton is declared that she's gonna follow in Barack Obama's footsteps. There's been just too much funny business on both sides of the aisle. She's made a lot of dough out of being a politician."
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"We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers."
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"An honest politician is an oxymoron."
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"Do not fear mistakes."
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"Politics is the science of urgencies."
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"Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked"
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