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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.