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“Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.”

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Author:Gary Gutting

“Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.”

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Author:Matthew Parris

“Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.”

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Book:A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Source: A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.”

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Author:John Arbuthnot

“Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.”

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Author:Peter Sarsgaard

“I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.”

“I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.”

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Author:Nick Xenophon

“What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

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Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION

Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION

“I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.”

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Book:Ill Met by Moonlight

Source: Ill Met by Moonlight

“In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.”

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Author:Chuck Todd

“I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature. . . . I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician -- not a "good" politician.”

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Author:Gayl Jones

“Yes, I'm married. But my wife understands that a good politician has to be appealing to the ladies. The fact that I haven't even gotten close to cheating on her is a disappointment to us both.”

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Author:Aziz Ansari

“I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.”

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Author:Liberace

“I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

“I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.”

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Author:Jonathan Chait

“Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of mission and vision, and resourcing, but at the end of the day politicians have to make compromises in order to achieve consensus.”

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Author:Colin Powell

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.”

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”