Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

Donald Trump is succeeding right now for sure. He is a gifted politician. But, he is just a gifted politician. He`s just a gifted politician that is appealing to people`s anger and frustration that is quite legitimate.

Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

Economists often define their discipline as "the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends." But when resources or money really become scarce, economists call it a crisis and say that it's a question for politicians, not their own department.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.

Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.

Every form of anti-Semitism, every form of xenophobia plays on the fear of the unknown, and unfortunately there are all too many politicians who know how to manipulate that. The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

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.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

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.

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.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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

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

Honey, I forgot to duck

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.

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

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.