Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

I'd have to go for Donald Trump ... you know, 'cause Hillary Clinton is declared that she's gonna follow in Barack Obama's footsteps. There's been just too much funny business on both sides of the aisle. She's made a lot of dough out of being a politician.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.

I don't care about politicians.

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians.

I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

I don't see Sarah Palin suddenly spilling over to a wider group where suddenly they go, "Wait a minute, I've heard her message, and now I'm beginning..." It's not expanding it. A politician that doesn't expand from the base is not a good politician. So I disagree with all the talking heads that go "Well, she's a very good politician." She's not! Good politicians expand, and she doesn't.

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.

If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS's ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president because this would not have happened. ISIS would have been eradicated, unlike what is happening now with our all-talk-no-action politicians.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.

I find it surprising, however, that many German politicians generally oppose referendums, but then when it's an EU matter, they immediately scream for a plebiscite.

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

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.

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

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

If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

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 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.

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

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

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