Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama's strength. A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today's young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

I'd have to go for Donald Trump ... you know, 'cause Hillary Clinton is declared that she's gonna follow in Barack Obama's footsteps. There's been just too much funny business on both sides of the aisle. She's made a lot of dough out of being a politician.

I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.

I don't care about politicians.

I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

I don't see Sarah Palin suddenly spilling over to a wider group where suddenly they go, "Wait a minute, I've heard her message, and now I'm beginning..." It's not expanding it. A politician that doesn't expand from the base is not a good politician. So I disagree with all the talking heads that go "Well, she's a very good politician." She's not! Good politicians expand, and she doesn't.

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS's ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president because this would not have happened. ISIS would have been eradicated, unlike what is happening now with our all-talk-no-action politicians.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.