Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' – I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

At our church I do not endorse politicians publicly. Because I am afraid that if I endorse one candidate, it would keep somebody from coming to our church. So I made one exception one time to put one bumper sticker on my car, but I don't ever do it anymore.

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

Bill Clinton is the master politician. In one way, you can say that he was never really about self-enrichment - he was interested in power and self-aggrandizement. But Hillary was all about self-enrichment. She really did, I think, feel a sense of entitlement - she wanted money, she wanted power, she wanted prestige.

Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.

Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!

Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

Congress wants to keep "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Washington politicians are united in their faith. Most worship the same reelection.

Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

Donald Trump is succeeding right now for sure. He is a gifted politician. But, he is just a gifted politician. He`s just a gifted politician that is appealing to people`s anger and frustration that is quite legitimate.

Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

Economists often define their discipline as "the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends." But when resources or money really become scarce, economists call it a crisis and say that it's a question for politicians, not their own department.

Every form of anti-Semitism, every form of xenophobia plays on the fear of the unknown, and unfortunately there are all too many politicians who know how to manipulate that. The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.