Politician Quotes · Page 16

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

— David Korten

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

— George Stillman Hillard

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

— Tom Hayden

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

— Joe Manchin

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

— John A. Macdonald

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

— Artemas Ward

They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.

— Jim Rogers

“is the only politician whose words are less than his deeds.” The”

— Gerard Helferich

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

— Alice Rivlin

“The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more…

— Douglas Coupland

Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But…

— Jeremiah Wright

I read a lot of history. It has taught me that any politician has to overcome difficult periods in order to achieve…

— Pierre Poilievre

I'm used to politicians being angry with me, you know, because I don't work for them. I work for my viewers.

— Megyn Kelly

The ideal post-Trump politician will, at the very least, be a deeply serious figure with a strong record of public service behind…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

— Henry Adams

I know politicians - I know politicians, believe it or not, better than you [Ted Cruz] do. And it's not good.

— Donald Trump

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

... you know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters - and not by, oh, anyone who knows what…

— Jerry Taylor

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked…

— Hannah Arendt

I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was…

— Matt Taibbi

We [Americans] continue to be harangued by politicians about how Americans must fight this war because we're being attacked because we have…

— Michael Scheuer

As a generation, Generation X or whatever we were called, we were not being nurtured. We didn't have Obama. We didn't have…

— Brett Morgen

The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the…

— Jimmy Breslin

People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are…

— Dale Jamieson

The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial…

— Jim Keith

There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in…

— Douglas Alexander

Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed,…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The big frustration for me is that people are growing so cynical about politics that you see them basically shrug and say,…

— Justin Trudeau

The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers,…

— Herman Cain

“A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when…

— W. Somerset Maugham

You think the politicians that run my country and your country don't have guns in the schools their kids go to? They…

— Vince Vaughn

The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.

— Mason Cooley

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

— Walter E. Williams

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

— Jonathan Chait

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have been a hard-working politician.

— Jaya Prada

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

— Jim DeMint

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

— Mo Ibrahim

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

— Margaret Thatcher