Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

I never fear famous politicians, never fear the big parties, I only fear the people do not understand.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing that politicians can do for the economy is to stop doing bad. In part, this can be achieved through reducing taxes and economic regulation, and staying out of our lives.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.

I notice anytime anything wrong happens, establishment politicians like to say the Russians.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'

Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy. Iowans know what is best for Iowa more than Washington politicians and bureaucrats do.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I shall be a good politician. Even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else, for that matter.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politician I'd need to come up with some answers.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

I thought Donald Trump once again just missed a whole bunch of opportunities to bury Hillary Clinton, and he missed them because he's not a politician, and he's not instinctively oriented toward the ideological explanations that undergird Hillary's policies.

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

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

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.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.