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A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture-in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
Andrea Dworkin
No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
Saul Alinsky
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.
Bertrand Russell
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Karl Kraus
The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
Robert Orben
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say that they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politician stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
Randall Jarrell
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
P. J. O'Rourke
A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.
Reza Aslan
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
Stephen Ambrose
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
Georges Pompidou
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.
Conan O'Brien
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
Ian McDiarmid
A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.
Emma Bonino
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
Eleanor Clift
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.
Lukas Foss
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
Buckminster Fuller
What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency in the United States. No one knew who he was, he came out of nowhere, he had this incredible persona that floated him above the fray, destroyed Hillary, took over the Democratic Party and became president. This is truly unprecedented: A young unknown with no history, no paper trail, no well-known associates, self-created.
Charles Krauthammer
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
Indira Gandhi
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
Harry S. Truman
A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifteen years.
Harry S. Truman
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