A local politician then asked him to find some use for the Plaza Theater.
Put bluntly, many politicians are asking themselves this: What's in it for me?
In the aftermath, intellectuals and politicians asked why the Arab world had been left so far behind.
A: No, politicians can't ask people to stop talking about things.
Some politicians asked outright for campaign donations or other favors, investigators said.
Not one politician ever asked the question "Why this?"
You politicians don't actually ask us how you should do it.
I can't think of anything more than "protect our bottom line" and I'd hope even the worst politicians would ask for something better than that.
Bergen was too good a politician to ask for something he knew he couldn't get.
If people don't vote, the politicians might wake up the day after the election and ask, 'What did we do wrong?'