When Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against Islam, they bolster the terrorists' propaganda.
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.
When borrowers anticipate that politicians might cancel their loans, they stop paying.
The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can’t even recognize explicit bribery because it feels the same as what they do every day.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
Our entire political system is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written in their favor.
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.
Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.
Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
Politicians make a lot of promises when they are campaigning, and they come to towns, and people get enthusiastic about them coming to their communities. And then they don't fulfill the promises.
I think 'community,' in the sense in which politicians use, it is largely a cant term.
I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.
People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.
If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.
Career politicians manufacture hogwash.
