Politician Quotes

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

Politicians cannot alter trends.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I feel his interest is a self-interest

90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous. What have they ever done to deserve that?"

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

Im a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.

A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

Ronald Reagan was unusual in being an authentic personality. Unlike many professional actors - and politicians - he was much the same behind the curtain as in front.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

Politicians don't create jobs.

I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

John Kerry described his Republican critics as 'the most crooked, lying group I've ever seen.' Now, that's saying something, because Kerry's both a lawyer and a politician.

Howard Dean is a politician, a medical doctor and a Democrat. So he has three reasons to tell women to take off their clothes now.

If politicians all told the truth, we'd be out of business.

"Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

Politicians are supposed to be empathetic. And, yes, I am, actually.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They're going to be okay."

My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

People don't like politicians.

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.