Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.

[On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

Politicians cannot alter trends.

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one part of the total tax system. There are sales taxes, Medicare taxes, social security taxes, unemployment taxes, gasoline taxes, excise taxes - and when you add up all of those taxes [many of which are quite regressive], and then you look at how they affect the rich and the poor, you essentially end up with a system in which the best off 20 percent of Americans pay one percentage point more of their income than the worst off 20 percent of Americans.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names