Politician Quotes

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

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.

Ignore everything a politician says before the word but.

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.

It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments.

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

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.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

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

To be serious, if we were only interested in earning big money then a politician would have to go and work in industry.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us.

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.

Canada has always been ready for the truth. I think they actually appreciate a politician or anybody as a leader who tells the truth.

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

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

I never fear famous politicians, never fear the big parties, I only fear the people do not understand.

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

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

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 and so on.

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

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

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.

All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you.

We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us.

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

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.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Connecting with people is an important part of my role [as a politician].

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.