Politician Quotes

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

You can't fool the American people - politician trying to fool the American people.

What right does a politician have to tell me what I can and cannot watch? Change the channel if you don't like what's on TV!

There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.

It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.

I don't like politicians who vacillate.

Somehow when you see a politician kiss a baby, shake a hand -- kiss anything -- it is tainted.

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

I always worry when someone's a good golfer. It's like you shouldn't have time to be good at anything. You should just be a politician and you shouldn't have time to practice golf.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.

Isn't that what our job to do is right there in media to discuss what politicians are doing so they stop doing it.

Politicians saying one thing and doing another, celebrities though are some of the worst offenders.

I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

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.

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

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

I'm a politician. I believe that we can change any rule.

I hope - I'm a democrat. I'm a democratically elected politician from the Netherlands representing one of the major parties in Holland - I hope that I will be able to talk and to discuss with people.

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

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

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 you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and Democratic politician do.

Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.

As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

A monetary order created and managed by politicians and officials is bound to disappoint.