Double entendre. Politicians love to doublespeak. We know doublespeak and we won't allow it.

Peter Slutsky

Some deputies who favor keeping public transport free argue that it's an incentive for politicians to get closer to the people.

Miloslav Kala

How banal, yet irrefutable, is the assertion that [a person] is a mixture of the 'angelic' and the 'demonic.' ... A true politician... can be neither... 'an angel' nor 'a demon... .' [Politicians] cannot be so if [they are] to... negotiate with courage and skill on the razor's edge between victory and defeat, life and death.

Milovan Djilas

Keeping policy on an even keel is very difficult for U.S. politicians to do. [Christensen] can do a great deal to smooth the ride.

Lynn White

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they?

Tom Baker

Elite politicians ... have awakened a sleeping giant. Everybody, we're all united in this effort to get comprehensive immigrant rights.

Larry Gossett

Recently, politicians have been in the news talking about spurring the economy, so we see those buzzwords showing up in the pitch.

Lt. Nancy Gillon

I have heard nothing whatsoever about this alleged media speculation. This is a matter for the judiciary to decide on, not for politicians and Jalal should know better than that. Why should he make a statement on the accused to the public? The court, the judge need to decide on this.

Abdel Haq Alani

If you want to play at the national level, everything gets scrutinized. Everything is fair game. These comments are not anything you want to write home about. They're the way politicians talk when the cameras aren't on.

Lee Miringoff

We look for a leading figure in an area of public interest - politicians, journalists, anyone who will speak out on the issues.

Darrell West

He is definitely a realist and he is a very, very, very intelligent guy. He probably is head and shoulders above most politicians in that respect.

David Kimche

This has very greatly strengthened the justifiable belief of the Indian middle class that an overwhelming majority of the politicians and a fairly large majority of the bureaucrats, technocrats and anyone else in authority is corrupt.

Inder Malhotra

Some politicians want something, they get it. It didn't do us any good at all.

Bertha Allison

Leaks are the bread and butter of politicians. There's a long and steady tradition of leaking information by politicians and their operatives to sway public opinion or otherwise inform the public about what may or may not happen.

Tom Newton

The news of any politician's death should be listed under ''Public Improvements.''.

Frank Dane

This is a moment of choice for everybody, for politicians and for people right the way down through every part of the community.

Peter Hain

I feel bad for the Ryan family, but when you cross the line and lose the trust of the people who elected you, it is a sad day. Politicians have to have the trust of the people.

Joann Osmond

I know celebrities that are star struck by other celebrities -- even major politicians are more likely to sit up and take notice of an issue when a celebrity is doing the talking. So this is clearly something that really is in our DNA.

Stuart Fischoff

Politicians from those communities each think that they can win.

John Green

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

Owen Arthur

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

Don Hewitt

Appointing former politicians to the job is dreadful, dreadful, dreadful, because you don't want anyone with the appearance of bias when a question of constitution comes up. So she was a welcome appointee.

Nelson Wiseman

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

Archibald Macleish

They seemed to blame us instead of the politicians.

Ralph Roberts

We are winning the war against career politicians. They are backing down under fire as they usually do.

Max Linn

It's one of the last places in politics that real people regularly question politicians face to face in unscripted environments.

Ray Buckley

They have a very vocal tiny minority of American citizens who overwhelm the majority because they are so vocal and they're so vehement. So politicians are afraid of them.

Mike Barnes

Smith said that it is possible that map lines will be redrawn. Deals were made at the map's edges. Some mayors and politicians influenced the boundaries. There was no science involved.

Hank Klumpp

Well, I hate to break the news to you: Some politicians lie. And this not just a little fib. This is a whopper. There is no study that documents failure of oral barbiturates to cause death.

Peter Goodwin

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Arthur C. Clarke

Our leading indicator - the one that's never lied to us like the politicians - suggests only 23 percent probability of recession over the next 12 months, that's very low.

David Littman

Everyone from executives and judges to scientists and politicians may reason to emotionally biased judgments when they have a vested interest in how to interpret 'the facts'.

Drew Westen

Wall Street people are noted for making early investments, whether for companies or for politicians.

Larry Sabato

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

Flann O'brien

So something is wrong with this total picture and that's why we need to have our politicians and our investigators to check this out.

William Rodrigues

We cannot continue doing politics that only speak to politicians ... we must open up to the people ... we are seeking a mandate from them for a political alternative and build a new majority.

Julio Borges

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Michael Palin

I showcased Oklahoma and not the people, unless it was the people who had contributed to the state, but not politicians.

Paul Lefebvre

We as lawyers and politicians have infinite debate without appreciating the situation. Some of these constitutional niceties scholars debate maybe don't apply to a time when airliners are crashing into 110-story buildings.

Gene Riccio

As Katherine always says, if the politicians won't do anything, we'll just have to become the politicians someday.

Courtney Otto

What I find almost offensive is all these politicians saying we know mandatory minimums deter, and we don't know that. We know the exact opposite, that it's not what you're going to be sentenced to that makes the difference, it's the chance of getting caught.

Sanjeev Anand

If politicians can't put up with things like that they shouldn't be in the job.

Brendan Murphy

Leave politics to the politicians. We know peace is just, and we are praying for peace.

Rev. Terri Heyduk

You'd think, with all these politicians present, there'd be more hot air.

Andy Warren

You've got groups that address any number of serious equations. The problem with addressing it is that the people who they are addressing aren't listening... the politicians.

Paul Kantner

On an issue this important, the voters should get the final say. This issue has become hopelessly politicized in Olympia. Politicians aren't thinking about what voters want.

Tim Eyman

My opinion is that when you have seasoned, proven politicians contesting in a primary that it's beneficial for the voters.

Robert Manning

The army will not get involved in the political conflict. Political troubles should be resolved by politicians. Military coups are a thing of the past.

Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin

Campaign talk from politicians like Ms. Cox is easy. Getting things done is hard.

Rick Dent

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

Antony Jay

The security concerns that have been expressed are greatly exaggerated. What you have here, I think, are a number of politicians who are overreacting.

Robert Bonner

From a politician's perspective, you can see why they would avoid the issue. There's strong feelings on both sides, and it's not clear-cut. And if I'm a legislator in Nebraska, I don't want to appear on TV against Rosie O'Donnell.

William Duncan

He held politicians to a level of accountability in an era where journalists were very deferential to those in power.

Mark Feldstein

The fact of the matter is, the economy moves in strange ways, and politicians move in even stranger ways.

Susan Hering

Public officials are more susceptible to public opinion. ... Votes sway politicians.

Susan Kennedy

The need for politicians to spend money leads them to reckless development.

Magda Stoczkiewicz

Politicians do this extraordinarily well. They have mastered the technique.

Michael Klepper

These sorts of things have been common all over the world, but you usually don't hear about politicians publicizing it.

Morris Fiorina

You have no legal right to those benefits at all. There is nothing in the world that is less guaranteed than a politician's promise.

Michael Tanner

This is an initiative of the people, and a lot of times the politicians don't want to do the will of the people.

Cliff Nellis

It seems to me that the public, and in particular many Democratic Party activists, are way ahead of the politicians on this question. Feingold's going where few politicians right now dare to go.

Steve Mcmahon

You can't take the politics out of disasters. That's what politicians are supposed to do: serve their constituents.

Peter May

This system is run by multiple bureaucratic agencies with multiple levels run by multiple politicians, all patch-worked together.

Richard Wagenaar

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

Charley Reese

I have big dreams. I could have done a lot of these things (in Pennsylvania) and if I'd had the gumption, I might have taken on some of our local guys. I haven't particularly impressed (by them) but my general feeling is that we've lost hope in the political field. Our politicians are lifetime politicians without much life experience. They talk the talk but their kids aren't fighting in this war.

Josh Greenberg

Health-care decisions should be made by women, with their doctors and families -- not politicians. Lawmakers should stop playing politics with women's health and lives.

Cecile Richards

Politicians will respond and move in our direction because we have what they need: popular and financial support.

Wes Boyd

The Number 1 issue in Arizona hasn't been a top priority for (Napolitano's) administration until very recently. Everyone is scrambling to try and deal with it. That's a difficult one for all politicians.

Margaret Kenski

This has become a favorite for all the politicians in Florida. Whenever you try to talk about it, people think you want to kill Bright Futures and that's not the case.

Manny Fernandez

It really gives the appearance that the judges have to answer to the politicians, and our democracy is set up very clearly to ensure the judiciary is independent from the executive branch.

Susan Mcgrath

For far too many years, too many politicians have pledged to create jobs to keep young people in Wyoming. They have failed to keep those promises.

Ray Hunkins

It's a place of fabulous people from all types of businesses: movies, fashion, music, art, with politicians, photographers, graphic designers and pro athletes.

Ted Demme

I'm worried about the politicians trying to use the money for things that make them look good and still leave the riders holding the bag.

Gene Russianoff

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Fletcher Knebel

From the promises of the local and international politicians ... we don't believe the status of Kosovo will match what the people fought for.

Sherif Krasniqi

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Richard Shelton

The challenge for federalist politicians today is to find a way to accommodate Quebec's unique character within the Canadian federation.

Benoit Pelletier

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Angela Davis

I'm looking for someone who is going to be open to the public. It's got to be black and white with us. That seems to be something that a lot of politicians just don't understand. Mayor Munson, quite honestly, could have been more open.

Mark Mulder

The entire matter of executive compensation, which seems in some cases to have come spectacularly unhinged from the market for corporate talent, will either be regulated by you the fiduciaries, or by the politicians.

William Chandler

Law enforcement officers, city members, politicians, everyone is supposed to set an example. If they don't set an example, what is everyone gonna see?

Jose Perez

It sounds very banal, but people have greater trust when politicians do politics and operational guys do operations.

Francois Heisbourg

You just don't know when it is going to happen, ... But I think some of the policy makers and politicians are starting to listen.

Robert Webster

These guys clearly needed to put as much money as they could into the hands of politicians as quickly as possible, but that pushed them over the limit.

Ned Wigglesworth

German politicians of the postwar era actually consciously kept their distance from the issue.

Reiner Klingholz

The trick for him is becoming less flamboyant, succeeding at governing, but not losing what makes him special and different from other politicians.

Elizabeth Garrett

A lot has been said about politicians; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate.

Eric Idle

If you want to keep politicians out of the Fed's business, which we do, then we ought to stay out of their business. That's one viewpoint.

Edward Gramlich

We were trying to achieve a compromise with the government; we were even willing to destroy the houses with our own hands, instead of coming to this violence. But the politicians really wanted to see the pictures of blood and violence.

Emily Amrusy

It will make the public more aware of the problems and make the politicians more responsive.

Edward Collins

These are politicians who feel they're about to lose all the power that they feel they've worked for for a lifetime.

Elliot Stonecipher

We will see this transfer into political power. If we cannot change their minds, we will change them (politicians).

Elias Bermudez