"I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things."
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"What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway."
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"Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be."
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"I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do."
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"Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution."
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"We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting."
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"Politicians don't really bring up religion in England."
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"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
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"Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'"
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"politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names"
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"The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . ."
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