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  • Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. -- William E. Simon
  • Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. -- Aristophanes
  • Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician. -- Scott Howell
  • There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
  • We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians. -- Kinky Friedman
  • I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good. -- David Baldacci
  • There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly. -- Demian Bichir
  • Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well. -- John Sununu
  • So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.' -- Cecile Richards
  • 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. -- Russell Baker
  • One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. -- Henry Miller
  • It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks. -- Prince Andrew
  • People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. -- James Bovard
  • Thank you to the readers of the 'Huffington Post' for voting me the 'Hottest Freshman' of the 111th Congress. It's about time politicians from Illinois were known for something other than bad haircuts or having the ability to walk on water. -- Aaron Schock
  • When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. -- Ron Paul
  • We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent. -- David Blunkett
  • 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. -- Jesse Ventura
  • If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it. -- Lincoln Steffens
  • 90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name. -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected. -- Malala Yousafzai
  • We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians. -- MaryJanice Davidson
  • I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy. -- Donald Trump
  • politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names -- Louisa May Alcott
  • Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
  • Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees. -- Jay Leno
  • A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes. -- Enoch Powell
  • Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent. -- Elizabeth Warren
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