Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

Please tell me you're Republicans.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

Politicians have available a very nice EAP [employee assistance program]. There are psychological services available. All they have to do is pick up a phone. All the parties encourage them to do that. There are very few politicians who, once they're elected, take the time to rest and recover, whether you look at John Tory's schedule or Kathleen Wynne.

Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

Politicians neither love nor hate.

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

Politicians are conservative by nature.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Politicians are supposed to be empathetic. And, yes, I am, actually.

Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

Politicians don't like empowered individuals.

Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

Politicians love change, but of details only.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin.

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

Politicians cannot alter trends.

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.