Politician Quotes

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

Our leaders are stupid. Our politicians are stupid.

We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!

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

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

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

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.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

Like all successful politicians I married above myself.

As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.

I am not a politician.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.