Politician Quotes

Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.

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

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

I'm a comedian, not a politician.

The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient for the large carbon polluters and the politicians who are in their pockets.

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

No opposition politician has ever taken responsibility for his or her election failures.

I'm only sort of a politician.

It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

I'm of the opinion that Angela Merkel is a responsible politician, a politician who has a sense of responsibility for Europe and not only for Germany or for the - her political party.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

The reason why Donald Trump does have a very strong base of popularity is he's an authentic person and not necessarily a politician.

You're never gonna find the perfect politician.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.

The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work.

I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.

I'm a doctor and a politician. Weapons are foreign to me.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

Yes, I'm married. But my wife understands that a good politician has to be appealing to the ladies. The fact that I haven't even gotten close to cheating on her is a disappointment to us both.

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.

I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.

I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing.

I think I'm one of five people in the Senate who's never been a politician before. And now that I am a politician, what I find weird about it is that I respect myself less.

I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.

I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.

Politicians are conservative by nature.

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and they're moving in a very constrained world.

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.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.