Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

[Hillary Clinton] is typical politician. All talk, no action.

Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.

Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt politician ever to seek the office of the presidency.

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

Honey, I forgot to duck

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama's strength. A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today's young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!

I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

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

I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians.

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

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

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.

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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