Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

I shall be a good politician. Even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else, for that matter.

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politician I'd need to come up with some answers.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

I thought Donald Trump once again just missed a whole bunch of opportunities to bury Hillary Clinton, and he missed them because he's not a politician, and he's not instinctively oriented toward the ideological explanations that undergird Hillary's policies.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

It's so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

I've dealt with Democrats and Republicans all my life, and somebody said, "Oh, do you have that much experience politically?" You know, I've dealt - and understand this better than anybody. I've dealt with politicians all of my life.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie.

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.

I was a celebrity. This is not what I do for a living - politics. I play politicians, as well as working class or clergy or whatever, and you mustn't be confused by what you're seeing on television because that's not who I am. So I always ended it.

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.