Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

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.

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

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.

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.

..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.

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

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.

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

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

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

We have politicians that are grossly incompetent. We have leaders that are incompetent and we have negotiators that are incompetent.

We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

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

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

We`re all aware that Hillary Clinton has a problem with the truth. Even among politicians, and that does not make her unique in the swamp that is Washington. But Hillary stands out.

We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothing—it’s easier to do nothing.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the predictions are coming true even faster than the scientists thought. We have the inequality crisis, where the Panama Papers are a great reminder that the one per cent have actually created their own economy. We still have the crisis of child poverty, which has never been dealt with despite decades of concerned words from politicians.

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.

What makes it possible for politicians to do so many things that are economically counterproductive is that neither the public nor the media know enough of the basics to understand what's wrong with what they're saying.

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.