Politician Quotes

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

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

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

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's "too soft" or "too hard," about 999 would say "too hard."

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices.

He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.

You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"