Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

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 all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

I'm a comedian, not a politician.

I'm a doctor and a politician. Weapons are foreign to me.

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 fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.

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; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

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 a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.

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

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

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

I'm used to politicians being angry with me, you know, because I don't work for them. I work for my viewers.

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 America, establishment politicians have betrayed our workers, they've betrayed our borders and, most of all, they've betrayed our freedoms.

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

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

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

I never fear famous politicians, never fear the big parties, I only fear the people do not understand.

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.

In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.

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

In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing that politicians can do for the economy is to stop doing bad. In part, this can be achieved through reducing taxes and economic regulation, and staying out of our lives.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

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.

I notice anytime anything wrong happens, establishment politicians like to say the Russians.