Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

[Ted Cruz] is changed his mind, decided it`s in his best interest to be for [Donald] Trump, which what that says to me is Ted Cruz is a totally craven politician and will say anything to win, but isn`t even good at it.

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

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.

The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words. The Tax Code, the words of politicians -- 7,000,000 words -- and growing!

The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.

The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over again. You don't just get it by virtue of being a professor or a politician or anybody else.

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

The difference between a politician and a snail is that the snail leaves its slime behind. Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

The English as a race are not worth saving!

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.

The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters - think of the interest when David [Cameron] launched WebCameron, or Tony Blair's rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube.

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

The old politician maintain the chair for a lot of decades. So if we will lose the referendum, this is not a problem for me. It's a problem for the new generation of Italians. Because it's a lost opportunity.

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.

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

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

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

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid.

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy