Politician Quotes

I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.

I don't care about politicians.

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.

Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

I think Donald Trump is new. He's a business guy running for president. So, you're not going to see a conventional campaign because he is not a conventional politician. He's not even a politician.

Politicians often lie.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance

When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this moment.

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as women politicians.

In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

You got to stop asking your politicians how they are going to do this or that...

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.

I'm not a politician. I don't pretend to be a politician. I'm an independent.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.

I’m not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.