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Letter "P" » Politicians
«The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time»
«The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.»
Author: Max Percy
| About:
Politicians,
Scientists
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altogether, persuades, priest, rebel, scientist, The Hard, urges
«The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.»
«The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.»
Author: Edward R. Murrow
(Journalist)
| About:
Politicians
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blunt, cutting, cutting edge, inexactitude, Return to, rounded, trained
«The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.»
«The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget»
«The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians»
«The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Politicians,
Politics,
Questioning
| Keywords:
coated, coating, eager, ethical, ethical standards, industrial, industrial waste, national, piece, Politicians, President, revealing, slime, standards, television, The Job, The Question
«The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new ideas; he is a man who seeks to search out and prick into energy the basic ideas that are already in th»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Politicians
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caravan, connoisseur, connoisseurs, innumerable, inoculate, inoculated, inoculating, prick, The Connoisseur
«The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office»
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