Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's "too soft" or "too hard," about 999 would say "too hard.

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend.

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians.

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians from the 1800s as well as Tuskegee Airmen in my lineage.

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

I'm glad I'm not a politician.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

I'm not a politician and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind. I'm just exploring what I see.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

I'm not saying Donald Trump voters are a cult at all. I'm saying the attitude of implicit trust, people don't trust politicians like that, and yet a lot of people will profess blanket trust of Trump.

I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into. My opponent, my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say, to them, Read my lips: no new taxes.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.