Politician Quotes

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

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

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

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

Do not fear mistakes.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.

I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

When a scientist says something, his colleagues must ask themselves only whether it is true. When a politician says something, his colleagues must first of all ask, 'Why does he say it?

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult.

Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round.

Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.

Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're two different worlds.

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."

Honey, I forgot to duck

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.