Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

[On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.

Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

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

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 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.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

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.