Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa
I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter, and something to crap on.
Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
One thing I love about politicians; they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts.
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.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
If we elect the same corrupt politicians every time, that's a very clear message that we don't want a change.
Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.
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!
The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.
Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.
