"Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly."
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"No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher."
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"In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it."
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"Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians."
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"Being a politician makes your hair turn white."
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"We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us."
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"There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians."
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"When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard."
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"Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke."
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"A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us."
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"I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons."
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"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead."
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"The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on."
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"I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics."
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"I don't think any administration, when they come in, thinks that their job is to tell the scientists what the science looks like or to be quiet about the science. Scientists need to remain true and not allow science to be politicized. Scientists are not politicians, and no politician should consider themselves to be a scientist."
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"Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy."
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"I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician."
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"He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him."
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"I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes."
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"I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place."
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