Politician Quotes

The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call 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.

Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.

If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

I have great respect for press freedoms. At the same time, however, a politician also has the freedom to decide whether he or she will accept an invitation to appear on a show or not.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

God is a politician; so is the devil.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.

Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

The difference between a politician and a snail is that the snail leaves its slime behind. Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.