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"The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over again. You don't just get it by virtue of being a professor or a politician or anybody else."
"The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient for the large carbon polluters and the politicians who are in their pockets."
"Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less."
"I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work."
"My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody."
"I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word."
"What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the predictions are coming true even faster than the scientists thought. We have the inequality crisis, where the Panama Papers are a great reminder that the one per cent have actually created their own economy. We still have the crisis of child poverty, which has never been dealt with despite decades of concerned words from politicians."
"Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better."
"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
"What we are seeing in Turkey is a non-uniformed authoritarian regime led by a politician, Tayyip Erdogan, who has allowed power to go to his head and is behaving more and more like a despot. Sooner or later this will provoke political uprisings throughout the country as happened after Gezi."
"You got to stop asking your politicians how they are going to do this or that..."
"Kings and such are just as funny as politicians."
"We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not."
"Most politicians are not authentic."
"More often than politicians, but not as often as they should."
"[Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?] More often than politicians, but not as often as they should."
"Never give a good politician time to pray."
"I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them."
"Please tell me you're Republicans."
"I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician."
