Politician Quotes

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

The English as a race are not worth saving!

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician?

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians.

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.

Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

Hookers have to deliver on their promise... unlike politicians.

I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.