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Letter "P" » Politicians
«The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Funny,
Magic,
Politicians
| Keywords:
draw away, in common, magician, The Magician
«The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.»
Author: James Dale Davidson
| About:
Money,
Politicians
| Keywords:
dependent, helpless, Politicians, subsidize, subsidized, subsidizes, taxes, wear down, worn
«The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.»
Author: James Knox Polk
(President)
| About:
Government,
Politicians
| Keywords:
disreputable, embarrasses, not absolutely, offices, operations, The Passion, votes
«The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics»
Author: Jonathan Alter
| About:
Politicians
«The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Lies,
Listening,
Politicians,
Politics
| Keywords:
corner, exhausted, politician, street corner, stump, stumps
«The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.»
«The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.»
Author: Jimmy Breslin
| About:
Gifts,
Politicians
| Keywords:
feature, gifted, gymnasium, named after
«The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.»
«The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Poetry,
Poets,
Politicians
| Keywords:
Challenges, in common, politician
«The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
loudest, most successful, politician, The Voice of the People
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