Politician Quotations | Page 4

The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

A great politician has great charisma.

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

As I assume my responsibilities as your representative, I wish to assure you of my loyalty and devotions, as well of my determination to serve you and the people of Canada to the utmost of my abilities.

Being young as a politician means being energetic. But it can also mean that the politician is immature or fragile.

Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.

Is Hillary Clinton as brilliant a politician as she's cracked up to be? Here's a bit of evidence for the negative: 'Clinton Says Lawyers Must Make Their Voices Heard in Washington' reads the headline of an Associated Press dispatch about a speech New York's junior senator gave at the American Bar Association convention in Chicago. Lawyers need to speak up more: Now there's a message sure to strike a chord with the public.

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.

There are lots of countries around that have weapons of mass destruction. We can't presumably attack them all.

The rights and freedoms that citizens enjoy - give a little here; take a little there - are still the same as they were in the beginning.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

The opposition parties, by attacking my relations with the federal government, in the last seven years, have not hesitated to score points.

Booker enters the statewide political stage in pretty good shape. His strong crossover appeal to white voters makes him an African-American politician with a chance to break the political glass ceiling.

Read between the lines and what this open letter tells you is that Tom DeLay is losing support among his base. They are starting to see Tom DeLay for what he is ? a politician they cannot trust.

No sitting politician or candidate should be able to make an appearance without being asked where he stands on Bill of Rights enforcement.

As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.

A lot of people said we don't really need a politician on the court, but for the past 30 years, we have had politicians on the court. I think it would be helpful to have someone on the court who understand how its rulings affect the other arms of government.

Our tendency has often been to say 'Well let's let the government worry about that', 'Phone a politician', 'Send a politician a letter'. I think people have to step up and take some ownership of these problems that includes crime but not limited to crime.

Ron Brown is raising a lot of money from people with no ties to his district, and he owes his constituents an explanation. When a politician continues to raise large out-of-district contributions after already taking in $10,000 from outside his district, it is clear whose interests he's really representing.

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.

Right now, we have a gas war in Eastern Europe. A politician like him would have to be in the middle of all these quarrels.

A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.

You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better.

You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping.

I learned as a politician that perception is reality for someone until they learn different, and we just need to continue to work hard to be sure we get the message out about our changes.

Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease.

I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right.

If you're a politician or a bureaucrat, this is a great program to make people feel good and to show that you're doing something to make them safer. But obviously, there's a big difference between what's presented to the public and how the program actually works.

I'm not interested in showing a politician falling over; it's about the issue and making people think differently about that.

The bishop has to show in each and every case that he is in a very serious posture of pastoral care and concern for that politician -- and that has to be seen by the Catholic people. When something is a public scandal, it has to be remedied publicly, but there are many different ways in which bishops might exercise that pastoral care and concern,

The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

The minute a politician tells people to conserve, it creates a panic. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The last thing we should want is to have a politician campaigning on behalf of a drug, ... It's a crazy way to make what should be a scientific decision.

The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate.

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who has taken care of Medicare patients, we can make it a lot better.

If you say that we're going to intervene to stop ethnic cleansing but we're only going to do it at 15,000 feet, you can't actually do it.

I have yet to see any tests predict the success or failure of any teacher in the classroom, ... Passing the bar exam doesn't mean that you are going to be a great lawyer. Obviously, passing the bar exam doesn't mean you are going to be a good politician either.

In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round.

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

He's one politician I've watched do things the quiet way. I learned from him, don't get upset, just keep working on the issue.

If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend.

Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this too, right alongside of him.

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

These Supreme Court nominees are probably the most visible positions that a Democratic politician is likely to take, and probably the most visible positions they will have taken since the war vote.

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.

If politicians would think more they would act less.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

Apple has great marketing, among the best PR and marketing in the world.

The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!

Politicians don't like empowered individuals.

A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

I am not a professional politician.

Isn't that what our job to do is right there in media to discuss what politicians are doing so they stop doing it.

Politicians saying one thing and doing another, celebrities though are some of the worst offenders.

A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

I find it surprising, however, that many German politicians generally oppose referendums, but then when it's an EU matter, they immediately scream for a plebiscite.

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

Im a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

Politicians such as Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich along with talking heads such as Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Anne Coulter are not the problem, they are symptomatic of a much more disturbing assault on critical thought, if not rational thinking itself.