Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

It's so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

I've dealt with Democrats and Republicans all my life, and somebody said, "Oh, do you have that much experience politically?" You know, I've dealt - and understand this better than anybody. I've dealt with politicians all of my life.

It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

I was a celebrity. This is not what I do for a living - politics. I play politicians, as well as working class or clergy or whatever, and you mustn't be confused by what you're seeing on television because that's not who I am. So I always ended it.

Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.

Lawyers are natural politicians.

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that, let the buyer beware.

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

Look...it's empty...as empty as a politician's promise!

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.