Politician Quotations | Page 5

90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership.

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.

This party will not take its position based o-n public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based o-n focus groups. We will not take a stand based o-n phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.

We're going out to rescue people who are being slaughtered or massacred, but we're going to do it at zero personal cost to ourselves.

This turns the flame up under the kettle and keeps the water boiling. It means he's going to continue to be peppered with questions about this stock sale, and no politician wants to be questioned about things like that.

There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

This is very much in keeping with Cheney's persona, but it is also a natural byproduct of what you will find with a politician who has already run his last campaign.

There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.

I am not running against her, but I will continue to be a thorn in the side of Dianne Feinstein and any other politician who is not working for peace.

I am not a politician but I want to serve this community.

I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

If I go among strangers the story of my insanity soon follows, and I do not care to live such a life when I can in a few hours go to my wife and boy.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

They [Democratic Party ] did not do what they promised to do. And we're not going to end trade - that's very important to state - but we're going to have to be more careful about it, and we have to recognize, as politicians, we don't represent some international company.

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.

Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're two different worlds.

Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

....he reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

I'm glad I'm not a politician.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver...

Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.

I've always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians

If politicians all told the truth, we'd be out of business.

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

I am not a politician.

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician not even a church politician.

Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

I went in to play the most corrupt politician I could possibly think of [in "The Congressman"] and to do it with a certain kind of charm.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

...[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm...

People don't like politicians.

I think the scary thing is that there is in place already a sprawling infrastructure of advocacy groups, think tanks, academics and candidates and politicians funded by the Kochs and other deep-pocketed groups on the far right ready to attack Hillary Clinton.

One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs' favourite politicians.

I'm not a politician; I'm an artist.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it - As soon as you hear the word 'Reform', you should reach for your wallet and see who's lifting it.

I do not trust self-serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations, either. I trust people. So I make my music for people, not for candidates.

Donald Trump's not a polished politician like Hillary Clinton.

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

..Washington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians

The camera is a natural attraction for a politician. And if a camera is here, we're going to be here. And we're going to say something, even if we have nothing to say.

The only true allegiance a politician has is to his own re-election.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.

I think all politicians lie.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise.

Politicians never keep all their promises.