Politician Quotations

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.

Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that.

The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

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

I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

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

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

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

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

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as women politicians.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan,

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard.

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

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

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.

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.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

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

I can't get inside the head of a politician today.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

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.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

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

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

If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.

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!

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

President Obama is the best-known politician to be exploring the possibilities of new technologies to converse with the people. Others must follow his lead and innovate. It is inevitable.

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.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

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

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

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

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.