"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."
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"I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve."
"I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category."
"'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it - As soon as you hear the word 'Reform', you should reach for your wallet and see who's lifting it."
"Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies."
"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics."
"A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians."
"Honey, I forgot to duck"
"To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect."
"If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel."
"I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver."
"Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age."
"I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians.""
"I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be."
"Like all successful politicians I married above myself."
"The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it."
"The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth."
"It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public."
"A politician... one that would circumvent God."
"As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur."