Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

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

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin.

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

Politicians cannot alter trends.

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

Politicians have available a very nice EAP [employee assistance program]. There are psychological services available. All they have to do is pick up a phone. All the parties encourage them to do that. There are very few politicians who, once they're elected, take the time to rest and recover, whether you look at John Tory's schedule or Kathleen Wynne.

Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

Politicians neither love nor hate.

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

Politicians are conservative by nature.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Politicians are supposed to be empathetic. And, yes, I am, actually.