Best 754 quotes in «politician quotes» category

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue in front of the camera and then big public speeches.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

All politicians operate within an Orwellian nimbus where words don't mean what they normally mean, but Rovism posits that there is no objective, verifiable reality at all. Reality is what you say it is.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

A lot of politicians now, here's what they're worried about. If you're a Democrat you're worried about your base on the left, and if you're a Republican you're worried about your base on the right.

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.

American politicians have openly said that the sanctions are aimed at bringing about regime change in Russia. That's aggressive enough.

Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again....But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

Anybody who says, "Look, John, I'm a politician. Don't believe a word I say," is a friend of mine.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.

As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' – I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.