Politician Quotes

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians.

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

Some politicians like to kiss babies. I like to kiss the baby's mommas.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

Very few politicians in Washington really represent the interests of many people.

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie.

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the evidence of why I disagree.

The only true allegiance a politician has is to his own re-election.

A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

Look...it's empty...as empty as a politician's promise!

As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' – I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'

Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.