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Letter "P" » Politicians
«There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.»
«The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.»
Author: Jimmy Breslin
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Politicians
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auditorium, frequented, named, named after, Queens, secrecy, The Vault, vaulted, vaulting, vaults
«The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.»
Author: Morris K. Udall
(Congressman)
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Change,
Politicians
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seat, The Mark, The Mark of, views
«There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.»
Author: Indira Gandhi
(Politician, Prime Minister)
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Politicians
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cows, India, There exists, The Masses
«There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.»
Author: John Galsworthy
(Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Politicians,
Power
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carry out, fellows, in opposition
«Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
| About:
Politicians,
Presidency
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bunch, cliches, contest, debate, encyclopedia, encyclopedias, high school, popularity, popularity contest, presidency, prize, the presidency
«Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Politicians,
Rhetoric
| Keywords:
articulate, doers, specialties, specialty, talkers
«Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
appease, appeases, appeasing, bamboozle, bamboozled, bamboozles, bribe, constituencies, constituency, intimidated, placate, politically
«That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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Politicians
| Keywords:
curried, curries, curry, esteemed, fawn, fawning, fawns, gratifying, indulges, presentiment, statesman
«The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
clause, cracking, disused, exploring, groping, imminent, nasty, shafting, shafts, shin, shinning, shins, subjunctive, subordinates, subordinate clause, timorous
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