Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.
Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.
Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
All politicians are to some extent salesmen.
President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.
Mikhail Saakashvili would do everything within his power to destroy me, first as a politician and then as a person. All government authorities, including the police, the military and the courts, are controlled by those in power.
I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.
I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.
Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.
It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.
If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.
There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.