Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.

'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

Honey, I forgot to duck

Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.

Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt politician ever to seek the office of the presidency.

[Hillary Clinton] is typical politician. All talk, no action.

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

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

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 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.

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

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

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 neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be 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 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 not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

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

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

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

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

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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 don't care about politicians.

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.