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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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Randall Jarrell
American
Poet
Born:
May 6
,
1914
Died:
Oct 14
,
1965
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Will
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Online
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill
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Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
Antonio Villaraigosa
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken
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Would
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Them
Found
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Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
Khalil Gibran
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Donna Brazile
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You
People
Will
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Politicians
Down
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More
Both
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Never
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