Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

Ronald Reagan was unusual in being an authentic personality. Unlike many professional actors - and politicians - he was much the same behind the curtain as in front.

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

Sarah Palin kept talking and talking, and the more she talks, the less compelling she can be. People say, "She's a very good politician, very deft at what she does," and whatever. And I hear that sometimes and go, "I don't know much about this stuff, but I would say no." Because the really good politician expands the audience, not contracts it. She may be getting a very vocal crowd, but it's a very specific group.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

"Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

Some politicians like to kiss babies. I like to kiss the baby's mommas.

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.

So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

So to Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Christine Quinn, Susana Martinez, Meg Whitman, Sheryl Sandberg, Carly Fiorina and every other woman out there who has ever felt more like a professional juggler than a politician, you are our best hope! Run sister, run.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

[Ted Cruz] is changed his mind, decided it`s in his best interest to be for [Donald] Trump, which what that says to me is Ted Cruz is a totally craven politician and will say anything to win, but isn`t even good at it.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.

The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words. The Tax Code, the words of politicians -- 7,000,000 words -- and growing!

The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over again. You don't just get it by virtue of being a professor or a politician or anybody else.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

The difference between a politician and a snail is that the snail leaves its slime behind. Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.

The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

The English as a race are not worth saving!

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters - think of the interest when David [Cameron] launched WebCameron, or Tony Blair's rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube.

The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.