Politician Quotations | Page 6

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

You need to pray. Donald Trump is who he is - and that's one thing that politicians are not. It's all "game playing."

When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don't pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Politicians love change, but of details only.

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician?

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

You can use data wrong. It's just like polling. There have been a lot of politicians who go conduct a poll to figure out what they believe.

Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

People are fed up. They are fed up with what's happening in Washington. They are fed up with both parties. They are fed up with politicians who have lied to them.

Since there are no absolutes, when it's convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that?

I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians.

One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.

Wit puts politicians at risk.

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.

I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that, let the buyer beware.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.

I was not a politician.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

Rick Scott used let's get to work to say: All these politicians talk; it's time to do. Everybody else talks about the problem; it's time to find the solution.

When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something.

Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.

If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again....But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.

This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.

Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.

Our politicians screw up all the time, as we see. But with so many things, we're no longer the world leader in that.

Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

Politicians often lie.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

You should stop asking your politicians how they're gonna do it.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

We do have more control over our lives than any politician.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

Hookers have to deliver on their promise... unlike politicians.

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

Five questions for politicians: 1. What power have you got? 2. Where did you get it from? 3. In whose interest do you exercise it? 4. To whom are you accountable? 5. How can we get rid of you?

Most politicians are not authentic.

All politicians operate within an Orwellian nimbus where words don't mean what they normally mean, but Rovism posits that there is no objective, verifiable reality at all. Reality is what you say it is, ...

When a scientist says something, his colleagues must ask themselves only whether it is true. When a politician says something, his colleagues must first of all ask, 'Why does he say it?

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

I have to say that I think Bernie Sanders is the first politician since Dennis Kucinich that I've been truly inspired by. Where you actually are truly speaking truth to power, in a legitimate way and in an unpretentious and very straightforward way.

In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?

American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.