Politician Quotes

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

I am not a professional politician.

Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

You have to define how much of a cultural politician you are as a performer. There are times where I just want to remain a civilian.

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

A lot of politicians now, here's what they're worried about. If you're a Democrat you're worried about your base on the left, and if you're a Republican you're worried about your base on the right.

You don't put an animal in the corner without the animal striking back, you don't put a politician in the corner and without them expecting to strike back at you.

Any politician who is not a unifier is not somebody that I want to be for.

I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

Anybody who says, "Look, John, I'm a politician. Don't believe a word I say," is a friend of mine.

Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?

I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.

Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.

Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that, let the buyer beware.

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

I'm fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.

Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.

There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician.

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'

Tony Blair is a very able politician; he's perhaps one of the best of his generation. He made a major contribution in many areas, but in Iraq I believe he got it wrong. He got it wrong.

American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.

As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.

I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.