Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

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 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 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 running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

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

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

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.

Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'

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.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy. Iowans know what is best for Iowa more than Washington politicians and bureaucrats do.

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 refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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

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.

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 tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.