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If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
Millicent Fawcett
Success
Politics
Best
Words
School
Political
Thought
Degree
Politician
Able
Attach
He
Himself
Course
However
Influence
Which
Succeeded
Personally
Meaning
Meaning Of
Then
Measured
Mill
Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.
Mimi Kennedy
Success
Truth
Failure
Politician
Every
Between
Well
Make
Knows
His
Difference
Actions
Appearances
Her
Image
I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.
Morley Safer
Personality
Brilliant
Somewhere
Politician
Think
Presidency
Magnetic
He
Loose
His
Clinton
Screw
Little
Bill
Bill Clinton
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.
Morrissey
People
Politician
British People
Despised
More
Been
Than
Thatcher
Ever
Margaret
Margaret Thatcher
British
Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.
Nicola Sturgeon
Eyes
Politician
Over
Very
Get
Trying
Any
Wool
Public
Far
Pull
Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Love
Politician
Hey
Give
Ham
Speeches
Generally speaking, politicians are an odd bunch. They seem to have very thick skins and genuinely don't care what people think. And charm is a very important part of the politician's armoury. I try to resist that kind of charm.
Paul Merton
People
Try
Care
Important
Politician
Politicians
Think
Kind
Seem
Charm
Generally
Part
Important Part
Genuinely
Odd
Very
Bunch
Speaking
Skins
Thick
Resist
President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.
Paul Ryan
Promises
Politician
Living
Presidency
President
President Obama
Kind
Obama
Record
He
Puts
Economy
Calls
Issue
Years
Barack
Barack Obama
Then
Inherited
Who
Four
I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
Pervez Musharraf
Politics
Election
Politician
Think
Out
Am
Going
Cut
Stand
Certainly
We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.
Peter Hargreaves
Care
Politician
Charge
Unpopular
Re-Elected
Make
Whether
Decisions
Who
Prepared
Need
Honest
I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.
Peter Mandelson
Politician
Sense
Active
Tony Blair
Blair
Day-To-Day
Supporter
New
Labour
Moved
Moved On
Being
British
Tony
I am not a career politician, even though this is my 12th year in the United States House of Representatives.
Phil Gingrey
Year
Politician
States
Though
House
House Of Representatives
Am
Representatives
Even
United
United States
Career
I'm not a politician.
Phil McGraw
Politician
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.
Randall Jarrell
Politician
Politicians
Meet
Our
Hundred
Say
Stays
Unchanged
Like
Category
Know
Intelligent
Dozen
Honest
The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.
Raymond Bonner
Man
Corruption
Better
Philippines
Country
Politician
To Be Honest
Assumed
President
Hiding
Morals
Merely
Wrongdoing
Been
His
Linked
Any
Which
Who
Honest
I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.
Raymond Kelly
Politician
Think
Charge
Demeanor
Making
Making Decisions
Being
Decisions
Certain
Certain Extent
Used
Extent
But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
Rebecca Harding Davis
Remember
Politician
Seer
Souls
Am
I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.
Rebekah Brooks
Relationship
Journalist
Politician
Having
Compromise
Never
Friendly
Position
I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'
Reuven Rivlin
Myself
Politician
Politicians
Other
Back
Say
See
Hold
Former
Capacity
Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.
Richard Corliss
Great
Politician
Nixon
TV
His
Baritone
Radio
Creepy
In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.
Rick Scott
People
Politician
Think
Ran
Typical
Exactly
Exactly What
Case
Because
Said
Doing
Surprised
Going
There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
Robert Dallek
You
Politician
Statesman
Idea
Longer
Certain
It is football. I'm not a politician.
Robert Green
Politician
Football
Any candidate who claims his religion has no influence on his decisions is either a dishonest politician or a shallow follower of his faith.
Robert Jeffress
Faith
Religion
Follower
Politician
Claims
Shallow
His
Any
Candidate
Influence
Dishonest
Either
Decisions
Who
Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.
Robert Kiyosaki
Time
Class
School
Word
Mind
Politician
Every
Biology
Every Time
Back
Battery
High
High School
Touched
Mention
Wires
Dead
Make
Hear
Stimulus
Frog
Flashes
Twitch
The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
Robert Orben
Good
Opportunity
Seen
Politician
Too
Guy
Miss
Witty
Warm
Chance
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