Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

Anybody who says, "Look, John, I'm a politician. Don't believe a word I say," is a friend of mine.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' – I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

At our church I do not endorse politicians publicly. Because I am afraid that if I endorse one candidate, it would keep somebody from coming to our church. So I made one exception one time to put one bumper sticker on my car, but I don't ever do it anymore.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.

Bill Clinton is the master politician. In one way, you can say that he was never really about self-enrichment - he was interested in power and self-aggrandizement. But Hillary was all about self-enrichment. She really did, I think, feel a sense of entitlement - she wanted money, she wanted power, she wanted prestige.