Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.

There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.

There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

Theres this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldnt be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

These guys from the nation's capital - now they do a lot of thinking. Referring to boxers from D.C., not politicians.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.

T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows.

The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient for the large carbon polluters and the politicians who are in their pockets.

There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true, or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.

The thing about Barack Obama, just from being around him, is he's cooler than the other politicians, but just nerdy enough to do the job. Like you can't be really cool and be the president.

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.

This not a criticism of [Mitt] Romney; please don't anybody call him up and say I'm ripping him. I'm not. I'm simply telling you that the connection [Donald] Trump has with his supporters, slash, audience, is unique. Not everybody politician has it, and certainly not every public figure has such a connection with their audience.

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

Time itself is the solution to all problems.

To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

Trump has a connection with his voters that most politicians don't have. I understand it perhaps better than anybody in media, and that connection that he has is not anything that anybody else can break. Only he can break it.

This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes.

To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making points that they don't ... I'd rather be funny myself, and I'd rather listen to somebody with a little sense of humor.

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

Under the right conditions, gay people can become politicians and be in control of their lives in a much broader way through activism.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

..Washington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

We are in a period called post. In previous periods, anti-Semitism was always direct. Today's anti-Semitism isn't direct. If you say today that the Jews are absolute evil, or Israel is absolute evil, you must say Israeli is committing genocide against the Palestinians. It is very rare to find a Western politician who repeats these things.

Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and Democratic politician do.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it.