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We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics.
John Lithgow
Politics
God
Good
Class
Thank God
Become
Politician
Kid
Out
New
Like
Became
Around
Always
Making
Lot
Up
Friends
Upbringing
Thank
Going
Moved
Either
Cut
Growing
Growing Up
Actor
The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
John Major
Mistake
Decision
Made
Politician
Never
Who
I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
John Mellencamp
Politics
Politician
Petty
Dirty
Like
Want
Fights
First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.
John Podesta
First
Half
Politician
Think
Guy
Idea
Half Years
Him
Years
Foremost
Six
Worked
Prejudiced
No sensible elected politician would look for spending reductions out of sacking teachers and nurses. We all know how important they are and that our electors want to keep those we have and employ more where possible.
John Redwood
Important
Politician
Nurses
Our
Spending
Those
Out
Possible
Would
More
Employ
Know
Look
How
Reductions
Where
Want
Sensible
Elected
Teachers
Keep
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.
Jon Meacham
Religion
Desperate
Politician
Birthplace
Say
Obama
Tend
Attacks
Come
Identity
Himself
Opponent
Questioning
Sell
Romney
I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'
Josefina Vazquez Mota
Life
Politician
Politicians
Criminals
Penalty
Proposal
Longer
Make
Another
Because
Makes
Said
Deals
Repeat
Maximum
Just
Sentences
Creating
Organized
Who
Deserve
The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.
Joseph Brodsky
Heart
Dangerous
Matter
Politician
Bishop
Hopkins
Supposed
Overalls
Know
Well
Read
His
Nor
Dumb
Expected
Blue-Collar
Farmer
Elizabeth
American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most like could be George Wallace.
Joy Reid
Politics
Long
Politician
Andrew
Could
Joseph
Long Tradition
Like
Most
Tradition
George
Trump
Wallace
American
Jackson
McCarthy
Populist
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
Joyce Carol Oates
Life
People
Personality
World
Politician
Complex
See
Writer
Simply
Artist
I'm not interested in showing a politician falling over; it's about the issue and making people think differently about that.
Judy Horacek
People
Politician
Think
About
Over
Making
Issue
Falling
Not Interested
Interested
Showing
Differently
I never had a dream of becoming anything, someone really high or a politician.
Julia Perez
Politician
High
Dream
Someone
Never
Had
Becoming
Anything
Really
I'm a recovering politician.
Julian Castro
Politician
Recovering
I'm an unambitious politician.
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Politician
I've entered politics the moment I marked my finger with the electoral voting mark. So I've entered politics, but I am not a politician. I am doing my duty as a citizen of India.
Kamal Haasan
Politics
Voting
Citizen
Duty
Politician
Mark
Marked
Entered
India
Finger
Am
Doing
Electoral
Moment
Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
Karl Rove
Face
Politician
Clown
Rally
Cindy
Would
Real
His
Antiwar
Movement
Anything
Show
Serious
There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
Kathleen Wynne
Politics
You
Game
Politician
Savvy
Way
Slogans
Temptation
Simplistic
Like
Look
Looks
Play
The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
Father
Politician
Our
Our Father
Kids
Members
Out
Fred
Threaten
Entire
Adult
Soon
House
Call
Knows
Island
Governor
Get
Controversial
Jail
Us
Grocery
Who
Gang
Now
Night
For Ben Carson, Donald Trump, or any other Republican politician to suggest that someone of any faith is unfit for office is out of touch with who we are as a people.
Keith Ellison
Faith
People
Politician
Other
Out
Someone
Touch
Trump
Office
Donald
Donald Trump
Any
Unfit
Republican
Who
Suggest
Ben
One of my unique features as a politician is that I am so blunt and so forthright, and I put my cards on the table to such a degree people aren't used to, that there's nothing left to hide.
Ken Cuccinelli
People
Hide
Degree
Politician
Nothing
Table
Features
Put
Am
Left
Blunt
Forthright
Used
Unique
Cards
Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.
Ken Livingstone
People
Politician
Marry
Most
Want
I think if you look at the realm we're discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to find an action by any politician intended to specifically favor either my firm or myself.
Kenneth C. Griffin
Myself
You
Political
Impossible
Politician
Action
Think
Favor
Would
Would-Be
Find
Firm
Look
Discussing
Intended
Any
Either
Which
Realm
Specifically
I have, never, ever once, ever gotten anything from any politician I've ever helped. Not one thing.
Kenneth Langone
Politician
Once
One Thing
Never
Gotten
Any
Anything
Helped
Ever
Thing
It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.
Kevin Spacey
Politician
Stuff
Gets
Done
Interesting
Who
Play
That's the tragedy of our country. Everyone is an inexperienced politician.
Ksenia Sobchak
Country
Politician
Everyone
Our
Inexperienced
Tragedy
I do not purport to be a professional politician.
Ksenia Sobchak
Politician
Professional
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