Politician Quotes

Being a politician makes your hair turn white.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

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.

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

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!

I am not a politician.

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

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

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 statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

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

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.

How come regional pandering only works in one direction, right? You never see a Southern politician trying to win votes in New York State by saying, 'I read books and make a mean vegan meatloaf.'

The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

I’ve always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians.

I was not a politician.

If somebody's gonna stab me in the back, I wanna be there.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

A great politician has great charisma.

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.

Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.