I learned as a politician that perception is reality for someone until they learn different, and we just need to continue to work hard to be sure we get the message out about our changes.
I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.
If you're a politician or a bureaucrat, this is a great program to make people feel good and to show that you're doing something to make them safer. But obviously, there's a big difference between what's presented to the public and how the program actually works.
I have yet to see any tests predict the success or failure of any teacher in the classroom, ... Passing the bar exam doesn't mean that you are going to be a great lawyer. Obviously, passing the bar exam doesn't mean you are going to be a good politician either.
I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who has taken care of Medicare patients, we can make it a lot better.
Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round.
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.
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.
When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.
Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
He's one politician I've watched do things the quiet way. I learned from him, don't get upset, just keep working on the issue.
Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this too, right alongside of him.
If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend.
So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.
I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.
If politicians would think more they would act less.
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
All politicians are to some extent salesmen.
Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.
Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're two different worlds.
I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.
The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.
I'm a sailor, not a politician.
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
I'm glad I'm not a politician.
I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .
It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.
I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver...
The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.
I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.
They [Democratic Party ] did not do what they promised to do. And we're not going to end trade - that's very important to state - but we're going to have to be more careful about it, and we have to recognize, as politicians, we don't represent some international company.
Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
....he reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.
Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.
Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.
I am not running against her, but I will continue to be a thorn in the side of Dianne Feinstein and any other politician who is not working for peace.
I am not a politician but I want to serve this community.
I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.
For my birthday, buy me a politician!
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.
I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.
The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.
Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.
I went in to play the most corrupt politician I could possibly think of [in "The Congressman"] and to do it with a certain kind of charm.
People don't like politicians.
...[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm...
'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
If politicians all told the truth, we'd be out of business.
Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.
I've always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians
I'm not a politician; I'm an artist.
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs' favourite politicians.
I think the scary thing is that there is in place already a sprawling infrastructure of advocacy groups, think tanks, academics and candidates and politicians funded by the Kochs and other deep-pocketed groups on the far right ready to attack Hillary Clinton.
I am not a politician.
Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.
I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.
Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.
With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.
Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.
..Washington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.
Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician not even a church politician.
Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet
[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.
Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.
I do not trust self-serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations, either. I trust people. So I make my music for people, not for candidates.
'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it - As soon as you hear the word 'Reform', you should reach for your wallet and see who's lifting it.
Donald Trump's not a polished politician like Hillary Clinton.
I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.
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.
The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.
I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.
Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.
Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.
Politics is the art of making civilization work.
Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.
When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don't pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune.
You need to pray. Donald Trump is who he is - and that's one thing that politicians are not. It's all "game playing."
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.
The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.