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“Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.”

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Author:Thomas Frank

“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.”

“It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.”

Children Months Politician News Died Caught Scandal Small Child

Book:Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard

Source: Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard

“The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems by raising taxes on the rich. If Americans were more informed, such a message would be insulting to our intelligence. There are not enough rich people to satisfy Congress' appetite.”

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Author:Walter E. Williams

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

Should Death Politics Politician News Improvement

Author:Frank Dane

“The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows.”

Natural Politician News Claims Credit Tendencies Cows Flatulence

Author:Robert J. Samuelson

“This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes.”

May Bigs Politician News Vote

Author:Jill Stein

“I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.”

Politician News Campaigns Bad News

Author:Charles Koch

“You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.”

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Author:Jesse Ventura

“You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.”

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Author:Robert Fulghum