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Most politicians keep close tabs on what's happening back home and work assiduously to keep lines of communications open with the political players in their states or districts.

— Joshua Micah Marshall

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

— Nancy Pelosi

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

— Jo Brand

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

— Greta Van Susteren

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

— Thierry Henry

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

— Arlen Specter

One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally.

— Mike Huckabee

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

— Paul Samuelson

✗Opposing Perspectives

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!

— Tom Baker

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

— Ronald Reagan

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

— Judd Gregg