Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

France, of course, doesn't need anyone. I don't believe in saviors. But the way in which our country is governed needs to change radically. That starts with the politicians and goes right up to our electoral system and beyond. What we need is a fundamental renewal.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

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

Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.

'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

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 couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

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

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

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

[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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

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

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

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