"I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain."
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"Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach."
"My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists."
"Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale."
"The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service."
"For my birthday, buy me a politician!"
"I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness."
"I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes."
"If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary."
"The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped."
"As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate."
"The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate."
"Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians."
"I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office."
"Every politician is emphatically a promising politician."
"For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers."
"One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says."
"In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize."
"Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low."
"A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard."