Sentences with phrase «like most politicians»

Shum said Cuomo is a pragmatist, like most politicians.

Like most politicians, Mullin's judgement is not perfect.

Rather than stand up to the governor, my state senator — like most politicians in this city, in both parties — has taken the coward's way out, doing nothing for straphangers who pay escalating fares for service that is nothing short of catastrophic.

Like most politicians, Theresa May is cautious and thoughtful.

He isn't prone to saying things in a convoluted and politically correct way so that no one can «hold you to it» like most politicians do.

I will not vote for him for president because he screwed us with HIS healthcare law and I found him to be like most politicians, useless

Not exact matches

Wonks and most politicians talk about immigration policy like it's a labor - market policy.

We all know that most politicians don't like to play by the rules.

Theresa May was voted the politician most like Jesus in a tongue in cheek poll by Premier - something she said was «extraordinary».

Two points, two of the ten commandments: (1) Most politicians sound like they're lying when they pander to religious audiences.

I don't think that most Americans would care too much if a politician was like Hugh Hefner, as long as he was honest.

I suspect Rubio, like most Republican politicians, is just a liar and does actually believe in science.

Wish most politicians were more like him.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but all our news programs are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with sentimental love in every pop song; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonize over our local sports team; we own many things, and still feel like we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» on the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

The bottom line: Wagering on a man nicknamed Big Lub in a footrace might not seem like a wise move, but Roosevelt's struggles — one of America's most vigorous, active presidents was winless in his first 525 races — show that conventional wisdom means very little in a race among oversized foam representations of long - dead politicians.

Though I of course agree with your main point, your comical last sentence is rather like saying, «I doubt Donald Trump will win the title of nicest, most humble politician ever.»

The pledge of # 50 million on a summer school for «the children who need it most» before they start secondary school sounds like one of those throwaway promises where politicians pledge money in return for a chance to control the day's headline.

What the public most fear is politicians who try and shove the complicated lives of voters into the likes of those little boxes that subdivided Woolworths» counters.

«I think it speaks to the arrogance of the Michaud campaign which, like most Democratic politicians, think they can get away with anything after 40 years of near one - party rule in Maine,» Savage said in a prepared statement.

GOP sources indicate that Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), for example, is one of the most in - demand lawmakers other politicians would like with them on the trail.

It was the most like a career - politician he'd ever been.

The proof is in programs like DROP, where a politician promises the moon and stars to his most loyal constituency, government workers, to make himself look good, then leaves the taxpayers holding the bag.

Governor Andrew Cuomo may be the most powerful politician in the State of New York, but that doesn't mean he can't embarrass his kids just like the rest of us.

It's certainly safe to say that he doesn't talk like most Bronx politicians.

Lopez has most frequently been seen with a bevy of New York City politicians, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who wooed Lopez like nobody's business for an endorsement, CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported.

Briefly, on Oct. 6 during the candidates» first major voter forums in the town of Bedford, Killian took her own crack at Latimer's use of money, briefly targeting him and other longtime politicians for using campaign funds for what she characterizes as frivolous expenses like food and gas; expenses of which there are dozens of in Latimer's most recent disclosure.

She's still «the - politician - at - the - height - of - their - powers» that most British voters would like to see as our PM.

While Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are the most prominent choices for politicians when it comes to social media, there are some who are moving beyond the basics and experimenting with networks like LinkedIn, Flickr and even Foursquare.

He is in some ways similar to the Robert Redford politician in «The Candidate» Like most viewers, I would vote for him against Royce in the primary (though we don't see much of the third candidate) but he is a pretty awful Mayor, focused only on becoming Governor.

Mike, you are probably correct about Skelos and the rest of the Repubs trying to make political hay on this, but Medicaid Fraud has been a problem in this State for 50 years and all the politicians have ever done is to throw money at it, shuffle agencies, people and responsibility around like a 3 - card Monty con near Penn Station and continue to screw the taxpayers with the most expensive boondoggle in the country.

The things that Tory politicians like least about the Labour leader might not be the things that most worry swing voters.

The Cameroons, like the Blairites and Brownites, are career politicians who have spent most of their careers in the Westminster village.

«Most of the politicians in New York are like trying to hold back time,» he said.

But while the governor has some real problems — like the decrepit subways and ethical concerns — in many ways he is also the most experienced politician in New York State, and he has a solid record to run on.

And now, late on a Friday, the time when politicians are most likely to release news they'd like to bury, the Department of Environmental Conservation admits it's given up on meeting a November 29th deadline to have rules in place to regulate fracking, if the environmental assessment were to give the green light.

«Most businesspeople don't like politics or politicians.

Milano said he also would like to see term limits for elected officials in Congress, calling politicians «the most powerful executives in our country.»

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Like most of the male politicians, Johnson, Gove and Corbyn have behaved appallingly — there's the sulphurous whiff of treachery, bullying and God awful incompetence

Like most of the male politicians, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Jeremy Corbyn have behaved appallingly in this whole farrago.

Most of its senior positions are, like the other parties, held by career politicians, not grafters.

He follows the likes of Denis Thatcher, Norma Major, Cherie Blair, Sarah Brown and Samantha Cameron as the other half of the most powerful politician in the country.

Being the most famous scientist is a triumph within a nondominant subset, like being the tallest kindergartner, or the most honest politician, or the wealthiest postdoc.

The science policy establishment is dominated by attorneys and politicians — competent people who, for the most part, have never done science and, consequently, have little idea what day - to - day science is like.

For the most part he just attacked, like a politician, without offering any alternative plan.

Not even wartime and daily national tragedy is enough to keep these politicians from sniping at one another so viciously that it makes the most heated modern exchanges feel like a legislative love - in.

Although most of these characters are merely unimaginative stereotypes, like the gay fashion designer, overprotective parents, egotistical politicians, and hometown roughnecks, they still contribute to the enormously enjoyable mood of the film.

The charter school lobby, like the gun lobby, is not a lobby that most politicians want to take on.

Seems like most attornies don't want to take on this challenge and politicians will only change the laws when they are in fear of loosing their position.

-- Finally, all politicians like to avoid uncomfortably close comparisons of spending with revenues, so I'm sure it will be the most important chart we can review: