Politicians cannot help themselves: they talk to their supporters and often say things they may later regret, especially in what they believe are private fund-raisers where they can speak their minds and try to convince their donors that they fervently embrace their causes.

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But that is the very thing staff all too often say they don't have.

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They say they often get underpaid, and they worry about working in a possibly toxic environment.

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Local authorities say they often reported on the illegal activities of loggers and cattle ranchers in the region.

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People often say they want political leaders who are honest, conscientious, likeable.

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Brokers say they often deal with his business manager, an attorney named Greg Betterton, who works out of an office in Venice, Fla.

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Doctors say they often rely on their own instant judgments in the office and have little reliable means of double-checking the patients' information.

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People often say they remember exactly where they were when Kennedy was shot or when they heard some other world-changing piece of news.

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Critics say they often are slow to catch up with major shifts in the industry, such as big jumps in supply or changes in demand.

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Capitalism as we know it today, they say, often does not.

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Today, although they often disagree, they say they almost never fight.

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Nuclear reactors, they say, often look great on paper, but are then plagued by practical difficulties and prove impossible to build on time or to budget.

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There is a big caveat here: Surveys are not necessarily the most reliable way to measure behavior people often say they do one thing when they actually do something else.

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His colleagues say they often forget his royal status.

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Conservatives also often say they favor universal coverage.

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The uncertainties and caregiving responsibilities they face are often overwhelming, but the Buchanans say they believe that choosing to sustain his life and bringing him home was best for Ryan.

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Indeed, until they do so, they are reluctant to definitively crown the boson, preferring often to say just that they have found a "Higgs-like" particle.

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They say no and often regret it for the rest of their lives.

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When I ask senior Republicans to pick their favourite candidate, more often than not they say "none of the above".

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Airlines say they most often pick trips randomly, and sometimes target problem flights to measure how employees responded to trouble.

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Anyway, exporters often say that they are irked as much by the instability of the pound against the euro as by its level.

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Recruiters and company hiring managers say they also often seek out potential hires at the meetings, conferences and other events that professional groups host.

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Smaller firms say they are often losers from energy prices.

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It's not a question that people ask as often as they do, say, what it takes to be a top model or chef, but more people may be posing it now than ever before.

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But they say that too often they are used without a strong understanding of their power to transform education, and many schools still use technology to support 20th Century teaching methods and learning objectives.

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Often young people will say they first become a gang when they are labelled as such by the police because they often hang around together.

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Public figures have to choose carefully what they say because it will often come up again.

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Often executives will say they are too busy to make that kind of space.

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People are often prepared to say they are right and the world is wrong.

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Kindle electronic readers are easier to reunite with owners than iPads, airlines say, because they often aren't locked with password protection.

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