Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.

The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters - think of the interest when David [Cameron] launched WebCameron, or Tony Blair's rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

The old politician maintain the chair for a lot of decades. So if we will lose the referendum, this is not a problem for me. It's a problem for the new generation of Italians. Because it's a lost opportunity.

The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid.

[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.

There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

These guys from the nation's capital - now they do a lot of thinking. Referring to boxers from D.C., not politicians.