Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 [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 call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

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

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 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.

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

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 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.

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 liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.

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

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

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 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 a doctor and a politician. Weapons are foreign to me.

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

I'm a comedian, not a politician.

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

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.