Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Time itself is the solution to all problems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

..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.

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.

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

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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'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.