Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

I'm not saying Donald Trump voters are a cult at all. I'm saying the attitude of implicit trust, people don't trust politicians like that, and yet a lot of people will profess blanket trust of Trump.

I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into. My opponent, my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say, to them, Read my lips: no new taxes.

I'm used to politicians being angry with me, you know, because I don't work for them. I work for my viewers.

In America, establishment politicians have betrayed our workers, they've betrayed our borders and, most of all, they've betrayed our freedoms.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

I notice anytime anything wrong happens, establishment politicians like to say the Russians.

I never fear famous politicians, never fear the big parties, I only fear the people do not understand.

In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing that politicians can do for the economy is to stop doing bad. In part, this can be achieved through reducing taxes and economic regulation, and staying out of our lives.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'

In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy. Iowans know what is best for Iowa more than Washington politicians and bureaucrats do.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I shall be a good politician. Even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else, for that matter.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politician I'd need to come up with some answers.

I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

I thought Donald Trump once again just missed a whole bunch of opportunities to bury Hillary Clinton, and he missed them because he's not a politician, and he's not instinctively oriented toward the ideological explanations that undergird Hillary's policies.