Politician Quotes

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

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.

Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians from the 1800s as well as Tuskegee Airmen in my lineage.

A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.

We have politicians that are grossly incompetent. We have leaders that are incompetent and we have negotiators that are incompetent.

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?

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

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.

If politicians would think more they would act less.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

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

I'm very glad I'm not a politician. I think it's one step away from the gates of hell, being a politician. I really do. It's a nightmare.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

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

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.

The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.

Wit puts politicians at risk.

You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.

Politicians don't like empowered individuals.

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

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

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

I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.

We should celebrate more often politicians who stand up and say things that are unpopular.

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

The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.

T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

Trump is bringing his business acumen to politics. That's something that politicians don't have: business acumen, many of them. And so they don't recognize it, and they don't understand it.

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