Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

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

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

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

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

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

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

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

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

[On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.

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

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.