Politician Quotes

You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

I'm not saying Donald Trump voters are a cult at all. I'm saying the attitude of implicit trust, people don't trust politicians like that, and yet a lot of people will profess blanket trust of Trump.

John F. Kennedy loved America. He was proud to be an American. And you'd call that politician JFK. That's who he was. He was not in any way a liberal as you know liberals today.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

American politicians have openly said that the sanctions are aimed at bringing about regime change in Russia. That's aggressive enough.

Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen and politicians.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain.

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

Most politicians are not authentic.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

[Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?] More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?

I don't want to be a politician. I want to be a leader.

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.

I had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.

I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians.

We're all aware that Hillary Clinton has a problem with the truth. Even among politicians, and that does not make her unique in the swamp that is Washington. But Hillary stands out.

Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money.

Since there are no absolutes, when it's convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that?

People are fed up. They are fed up with what's happening in Washington. They are fed up with both parties. They are fed up with politicians who have lied to them.

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

A contemporary politician has to be cognizant of things that are going on.

A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!

I am a politician, but I am also a Christian.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

Politicians are leeches, mostly.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the truth.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.