Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

Lawyers are natural politicians.

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.

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

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.

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 environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

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

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.

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

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

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

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

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

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 give a good politician time to pray.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

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

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

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

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

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

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

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.

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

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

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

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

[On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.