Politician Quotes

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

[On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

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.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

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.

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

I think I want to go in to law or oncology, as those are both subjects that really interest me, but my parents say that I should be a politician since I am so good at arguing!

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.