41.   Even as the state budget is being cut because of slumping tax revenues, many politicians say they have no choice but to pay.

42.   Even if they do not get picked, politicians say it burnishes their image just to be mentioned.

43.   Even opposition politicians say that there are few alternatives.

44.   For years politicians have said that Moore had the best chance of any Democrat to break the GOP tradition in the district.

45.   Forgetting whether such a plan could work, no one expects things to go as Chernomyrdin says now, because in Russia, no one believes anything politicians say.

46.   For years, local politicians said Thursday, they had been trying to get someone to do something about Thomas Hamilton.

47.   He uses his line-item veto power to slash a fraction of overall spending and then boasts about the cuts, pundits and politicians say,

48.   He said he knows some people will interpret his decision as confirmation that politicians say one thing and do another.

49.   If not, American politicians say, the Kyoto Protocol, as the agreement is called, cannot be approved by the U.S. Senate.

50.   If a left-wing politician says all the right-wing things, he noted, the right wing will have nothing left to say.